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'''Jeong-ja''', also spelled '''Jung-ja''', '''Jong-ja''', or '''Chung-ja''', is a Korean given name.
Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" (子). In Japan, where this character is read ''ko'', it was originally used as suffix for the names of girls in the aristocracy. The practice of adding ''-ko'' to girls' names spread to the lower classes following the 1868 Meiji Restoration.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wB9pAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA318|last=O'Neill|first=P.G.|author-link=Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill|title=Collected Writings of P.G. O'Neill|publisher=Routledge|page=318|year=2014}}</ref> Jeong-ja is one of a number of Japanese-style names ending in "ja", along with Young-ja and Soon-ja, that were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945, but declined in popularity afterwards.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007032017291&sid=010620&nid=006<ype=1 |title=가장 흔한 이름은? 男 영수→민준ㆍ女 영자→서연 |work=Korea Economic Daily |date=2007-03-20 |access-date=2012-12-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204209/http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007032017291&sid=010620&nid=006<ype=1 |archive-date=2013-10-29 }}</ref> According to South Korean government data, it was the sixth-most popular name for baby girls in 1940.<ref name="babyname.co.kr1940">{{cite web|url=http://www.babyname.co.kr/menu01_09.php?standard=&val=&PAGE_NO=2|title=한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?|publisher=babyname.co.kr|access-date=2012-11-09|archive-date=2013-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020214127/http://www.babyname.co.kr/menu01_09.php?standard=&val=&PAGE_NO=2|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 1950 there were no names ending in "ja" in the top ten.<ref name="babyname.co.kr">{{cite web|url=http://www.babyname.co.kr/menu01_09.php?cate1=14&name=|title=한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?|publisher=babyname.co.kr|access-date=2012-11-09|archive-date=2013-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020201918/http://www.babyname.co.kr/menu01_09.php?cate1=14&name=|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==People== People with this name include: *Ho Jong-suk (born Ho Jong-ja; 1908–1991), Korean independence activist and North Korean politician *Lee Jung-ja (born 1951), South Korean former volleyball player *Sin Jung-ja (born 1980), South Korean basketball player
==See also== *List of Korean given names
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