# Soon-ja

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'''Soon-ja''', also spelled '''Sun-ja''', is a Korean given name. According to South Korean government data it was the seventh-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|accessdate=2012-11-09}}</ref> It is one of a number of Japanese-style names ending in "ja", like [Young-ja](/source/Young-ja) and [Jeong-ja](/source/Jeong-ja), that were popular when [Korea was under Japanese rule](/source/Korea_under_Japanese_rule), but declined in popularity afterwards.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007032017291&sid=010620&nid=006&ltype=1|title=가장 흔한 이름은? 男 영수→민준ㆍ女 영자→서연|work=[Korea Economic Daily](/source/Korea_Economic_Daily)|date=2007-03-20|accessdate=2012-12-04}}</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|accessdate=2012-11-09}}</ref> The same characters correspond to a number of Japanese female given names, including the ''[on'yomi](/source/on'yomi)'' reading [Junko](/source/Junko) and the ''[kun'yomi](/source/kun'yomi)'' readings [Ayako](/source/Ayako), [Masako](/source/Masako), [Michiko](/source/Michiko), [Nobuko](/source/Nobuko), and [Yoshiko](/source/Yoshiko).<ref>{{cite book|url=http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C|first=Jim|last=Breen|authorlink=Jim Breen|title=Japanese Names Dictionary|publisher=Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group|year=2011|access-date=9 December 2020}}</ref>

People with this name include:
*[Soon Ja Du](/source/Soon_Ja_Du) (born 1940), South Korean-born American convenience store owner
*[Jeong Sun-ja](/source/Jeong_Sun-ja) (born 1947), South Korean diver
*[Kim Sun-ja (athlete)](/source/Kim_Sun-ja_(athlete)) (born 1966), South Korean sprinter
*[Lee Soon-ja](/source/Lee_Soon-ja) (born 1939), South Korean former first lady, wife of Chun Doo-hwan
*[Lee Sun-ja](/source/Lee_Sun-ja) (born 1978), South Korean sprint canoer 
*[Park Soon-ja](/source/Park_Soon-ja) (born 1966), South Korean former field hockey player

==See also==
*[List of Korean given names](/source/List_of_Korean_given_names)

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