Jihye

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ʒiaɪ/(machine-generated) Korean · model-generated

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Jihye is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name.

  • USUnited States1 in 353K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2M
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 4.3M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jihye itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 named 지혜, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
144 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

North Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
JihyeLatin(measured from records)
지혜Hangul(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 지혜 in KR South Korea, MO Macao.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Jihye counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jihye is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#14≈160,000 est.≈1 in 329461지혜131
KP North Korea#526≈9,300 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Jihye9
US United States—9411 in 353K933Jihye144
ZA South Africa—≈200 est.≈1 in 280K—Jihye2
DE Germany—≈160 est.≈1 in 505K—Jihye28
AU Australia—≈120 est.≈1 in 206K—Jihye37
MO Macao—≈120 est.≈1 in 5.3K—지혜1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Supreme Court — newborn given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Jihye is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ji-Hye

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Ji-Hye, Jihyé

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
197019801990Ryu Ji-Hae, b. 1976Yoon Ji-hye, b. 1979Lee Ji-hye, b. 1980Charlet Chung, b. 1983Seo Ji-hye, b. 1984Han Ji-hye, b. 1984Ji-hae Park, b. 1985Wang Ji-hye, b. 1985An So-yo, b. 1987An Ji-hye, b. 1989
  • Ryu Ji-Haeb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean table tennis player
  • Yoon Ji-hyeb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Lee Ji-hyeb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean jazz composer and bandleader (1980-)
  • Charlet Chungb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and voice actress
  • Seo Ji-hyeb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1984
  • Han Ji-hyeb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Ji-hae Parkb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean violinist
  • Wang Ji-hyeb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • An So-yob. 1987KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (born 1987)
  • An Ji-hyeb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1989-)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
Informal안녕하세요, Jihye님Hi Jihye, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Jihye
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020933#12,987
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208#12,987

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Jihye?
In Korean /ʒiaɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Jihye a male or female name?
Jihye is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
In which country does Jihye have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 158 thousand people named 지혜 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Jihye?
In the United States, the national register counted 941 people named Jihye in 2020, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
How common is Jihye compared with other names?
In South Korea, Jihye is the 14th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jihye” — the 14th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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