Hayeon: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Hayeon – Origin: Korean (hanja-based) – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: hah-YUN


Hayeon is a Korean (hanja-based) girl's name. It appears in our list of 175+ Korean Baby Girl Names With Stunning Meanings.

Meaning & Origin of Hayeon

Origin: Korean (hanja-based).

A common claim: Baby-name sites give Hayeon as meaning 'brilliant virtue', from hanja 夏 + 賢 (or 燃). Actually: Different sources give different hanja pairs for this same romanization, so Hayeon doesn't have one fixed meaning — it depends on which characters a specific person's name actually uses.

How to Pronounce Hayeon

Phonetic: hah-YUN   IPA: /hɑː.jʌn/

Popularity of Hayeon

Hayeon 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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