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In 1909, the Korean Empire established a civil registration law, starting the creation of a modern family registry system. With regard to the recording of details about women such as the father's surname, age, and connection to the registry holder, due to attention that needed to be given to avoiding conflict with Korean customs, the drafting of the law was not completed until April 1910, just ...
Pages in category "Japanese feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 544 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Soon-ja, also spelled Sun-ja, is a Korean female given name.According to South Korean government data it was the seventh-most popular name for baby girls in 1940. [1] The same characters correspond to a number of Japanese female given names, including the on'yomi reading Junko and the kun'yomi readings Ayako, Masako, Michiko, Nobuko, and Yoshiko. [2]
Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved.
Kyung-ja, also spelled Kyong-ja, Kyoung-ja or Gyeong-ja, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. [ 1 ] There are 54 hanja with the reading " kyung " and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names ...
List of common Japanese surnames; List of Korean surnames; See also. East Asian name (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 1 May 2024, at 05:54 (UTC ...
Chun-ja is one of a number of Japanese-style names ending in "ja", like Young-ja and Jeong-ja, that were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterwards. According to South Korean government data, Chun-ja was the fourth-most popular name for newborn girls in 1945, with nine out of the top ten names for girls ...
It is also a feminine name in the Sanskrit language meaning "melted" or "dissolved", and is also a Hebrew name meaning "song; joy". [1] The name Rina is also a hypocoristic for various names ending with 'rina' (Italian Caterina, German Katharina, Russian Ekaterina and others) and is a feminine given name of Japanese origins. Rina is also a ...