Entry № 9955 · Other origin

Soyoung Soyoung — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-YUNG /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bright garden"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Korean)

A name that means "bright garden".

Soyoung is from the Korean 소영 (Soyoung — so small/precious + young glory/brightness — small bright one, precious glory). Soyoung is one of the Korean feminine names — central to traditional Korean Confucian heritage.

Bright garden (Korean).

The name in its native script.

소영
Transliteration
Soyoung
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈjʌŋ /
Root
—
Grammatical form
—

Where Soyoung stands.

Soyoung 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.

Soyoungs before her.

Real people

—

In fiction
Soyoung
Korean small bright one.

Names connected to Soyoung.

The number behind Soyoung.

8

The Visionary

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