Ji-hae as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ji-hae

What is the meaning of the name Ji-hae ?

The baby name Ji-hae is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Korean: 지해 /tɕi.hɛ/; English approximation: "jee-hay".

Ji-hae is Korean in Origin.

Ji-hae is a Korean given name formed from two syllables, ji (지) and hae (해), whose meanings vary with the hanja selected. Common choices include 智/知 (“wisdom, knowledge”) or 志 (“will, aspiration”) for Ji, paired with 海 (“sea, ocean”), 解 (“to untie, solve”), or 亥 (the twelfth earthly branch) for Hae, yielding readings like “wise ocean,” “one who knows how to solve,” or “boundless ambition.” The specific hanja must come from South Korea’s official list for personal names.

Used since the mid-20th century and now found across the Korean diaspora, Ji-hae is technically unisex but leans feminine in contemporary usage. Pronounced roughly “jee-heh” [dʑi.hɛ], it is romanized as Ji-hae under Revised Romanization and Chihae in McCune–Reischauer; variants include Jihae (no hyphen) and the spacing Ji Hae. It should not be confused with the much more common Ji-hye (지혜), which specifically means “wisdom.”

⚙ Ji-hae is a genuine rarity. In all, it appears just 1 time, across 1 country.