Entry № 4943 · Korean origin

Jisoo Jisoo — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEE-soo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Wisdom and excellence (Jisoo of Blackpink + Snowdrop)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Korean)

A name that means "wisdom and excellence (jisoo of blackpink + snowdrop)".

Jisoo (지수, 知秀) is from the Korean ji (wisdom, knowledge) + soo (excellence, beauty) — a common Korean given name interpretable through multiple Sino-Korean character combinations. Kim Jisoo (born 1995) — South Korean singer, songwriter, and actress; oldest member and lead vocalist of the K-pop group BLACKPINK, formed by YG Entertainment in 2016 — Blackpink is the highest-grossing female K-pop group ever and the first Asian act to headline a Coachella main stage (2023). Played Eun Young-ro in JTBC's Snowdrop (2021-2022). In 2023 founded her own management company BLISSOO. Married actor Ahn Bo-hyun in 2023, briefly. Jisoo (1990) Park Ji-soo — Korean actress.

Wisdom and excellence.

The name in its native script.

지수
Transliteration
Jisoo
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒiː.suː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jisoo stands.

Jisoo does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jisoos before her.

Real people
Kim Jisoo (BLACKPINK)
Korean singer.
born 1995
In fiction
Eun Young-ro
Snowdrop.
2021

Names connected to Jisoo.

The number behind Jisoo.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jisoo reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.