Sung-hyun as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sung-hyun

What is the meaning of the name Sung-hyun ?

The baby name Sung-hyun is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /sʌŋ.hjʌn/ (suhng-hyun).

Sung-hyun is Korean in Origin.

Sung-hyun is a Korean given name composed of two Sino-Korean syllables, sung (성, Seong) + hyun (현, Hyeon). Romanization variants include Seong-hyeon (Revised Romanization), Sŏng-hyŏn (McCune–Reischauer), and the more casual Sung-hyeon or Sunghyun; the hyphen is often omitted. It should not be confused with Seung-hyun (승현). The name is unisex but more commonly masculine, used throughout the 20th century and especially familiar from the 1980s–1990s in South Korea, while remaining in steady contemporary use.

Meaning depends on the hanja chosen; many options are approved by the South Korean government. Common elements for sung include 聖 “sacred,” 成 “accomplish,” or 星 “star,” paired with hyun characters such as 賢 “virtuous, wise,” 玄 “profound,” 玹 “jade, resonant,” 炫 “brilliant,” or 顯 “illustrious.” Thus combinations like 聖賢 suggest “holy and wise,” 成賢 “accomplished and virtuous,” or 星炫 “shining star.” Nicknames may shorten to Sunghyun or Hyun.

⚙ Sung-hyun barely registers. Our whole dataset turns up only 2 recorded uses, across 2 countries.