name
Korean
Yoona
YOO-nah
ˈjuːnɑːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Yoona
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Korean
- Meaning
- a Korean feminine name with several possible hanja renderings — most commonly using characters meaning tender and graceful or lotus and graceful, giving the meaning tender and elegant or graceful as a lotus; made widely known by Im Yoona — known simply as Yoona — a member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation (SNSD), one of the most influential K-pop groups of the late 2000s and early 2010s whose success in Korea, Japan, and across Asia helped establish the global K-pop phenomenon; in Korean the name has the appealing phonological qualities of a soft initial consonant and the warm -na ending that is common in feminine Korean names alongside -ra, -ri, and -mi
- Gender
- female
- Also spelled
- Yuna, Yoo-na, Yu-na
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