Daehee: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Daehee – Meaning: great and radiant/flourishing – Origin: Sino-Korean – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: DAY-hee


Daehee is a Sino-Korean girl's name meaning “great and radiant/flourishing”. It appears in our list of 175+ Korean Baby Girl Names With Stunning Meanings.

Meaning & Origin of Daehee

Meaning: Great and radiant/flourishing.

Origin: Sino-Korean.

A common claim: Widely glossed on baby-name sites as meaning 'great joy'. Actually: 'Joy' overstates it -- 熙 more literally means bright/radiant/flourishing, with 'joyful' only a secondary classical nuance.

How to Pronounce Daehee

Phonetic: DAY-hee   IPA: /deɪˈhiː/

Popularity of Daehee

Daehee doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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