Hee-jin as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Hee-jin

What is the meaning of the name Hee-jin ?

The baby name Hee-jin is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced HEE-jin.

Hee-jin is Chinese, Korean in Origin.

Heejin is a Korean feminine given name, conventionally written 희진 in Hangul; this is the earliest secure form for the modern name. It is usually a two-syllable Sino-Korean compound, with each syllable matched to an approved hanja. For the reading Hee, 熙 gives the sense bright, splendid, while Jin may be 珍, precious, or 眞, true, among other characters, so the literal force depends on the family’s chosen spelling.

Hyphenated Hee-jin and spaced Hee Jin reflect common romanization choices rather than separate names; Hui-jin is closer to Revised Romanization. Such names became especially visible in twentieth-century South Korea, when hanja-based two-syllable given names were standard in registration and schooling contexts. The name is known outside Korea mainly through migration and Korean popular music, including singers who use Heejin or HeeJin, but it remains culturally Korean in structure and usage.

⚙ Hee-jin is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Hee-jin appears only 2 times in total — found in 2 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.