Young-Ja

  • [ yung-jah ]
  • Korean
Variant transcription of YEONG-JA.

YEONG-JA   female   Korean
From Sino-Korean (yeong) meaning "flower, petal, brave, hero" and (ja) meaning "child". Other hanja character combinations can form this name as well. Feminine names ending with the character (a fashionable name suffix in Japan, read as -ko in Japanese) were popular in Korea during the period of Japanese rule (1910-1945). After liberation this name and others like it declined in popularity.
EQUIVALENTS
KOREAN: Yeong-Ja