Jiwon as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Jiwon

What is the meaning of the name Jiwon ?

The baby name Jiwon is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced JEE-won.

Jiwon is Chinese, Korean in Origin.

Jiwon is a Korean given name written in Hangul as 지원 and often romanized Ji-won under Revised Romanization. Its semantic content normally depends on the chosen hanja, the Chinese-derived characters used in many Korean personal names. Ji may be written 智 or 知, both connected with wisdom or knowledge, while won may be 元, first or origin, 園, garden, or other characters with the same Sino-Korean reading. The earliest recoverable form for the name is therefore the Korean syllabic form 지원, with literal meaning varying by family-selected characters.

In Korea, Jiwon is used for girls and boys, though modern English-language records often treat it as feminine. Hanja-based naming was reinforced by literate elite culture before and during the Joseon period, but the specific pairing 지원 is best understood as a modern Korean given name rather than an ancient fixed name. Spellings such as Ji-won, Ji Won, and Jee-won appear in diaspora contexts. U.S. Social Security data records rare female use in the early 2000s, consistent with Korean and Korean-American naming patterns.