Entry № 9427 · Korean origin

Seungyeon Seungyeon — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOONG-yon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Korean
Meaning
"Han Seung-yeon - Kara 2nd-gen K-pop"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "han seung-yeon - kara 2nd-gen k-pop".

Seungyeon is from the Korean seung (승 — victory, ascend) + yeon (연 — beautiful, connection). Han Seung-yeon (Seungyeon, born 1988) is a Korean K-pop singer and actress — lead vocalist of the K-pop girl group Kara (카라, DSP Media, 2007-2016) alongside Gyuri, Hara, Nicole, and Youngji. Kara was widely considered one of the 2nd-generation K-pop girl groups alongside Girls' Generation + Wonder Girls + 2NE1 — Hallyu Korean Wave pioneers in Japan. Reunited for MOVE AGAIN (2022) 15th-anniversary album. Korean variety star + actress.

Victory + connection (Korean).

The name in its native script.

승연
Transliteration
Seung-yeon
Pronunciation
/ ˈsʌŋ.jʌn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Seungyeon stands.

Seungyeon 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.

Seungyeons before her.

Real people
Seungyeon (Han Seung-yeon, Kara)
Kara 2nd-gen K-pop + Mister.
born 1988
In fiction
Seungyeon
Korean victory + connection.

Names connected to Seungyeon.

The number behind Seungyeon.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Seungyeon reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.