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Soon-ja
Soon-ja, also spelled Sun-ja, is a Korean female given name. According to South Korean government data it was the seventh-most popular name for baby girls in 1940. The same characters correspond to a number of Japanese female given names, including the on'yomi reading Junko and the kun'yomi readings Ayako, Masako, Michiko, Nobuko, and Yoshiko. It is one of a number of Japanese-style names ending in "ja", like Young-ja and Jeong-ja, that were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterwards. By 1950 there were no names ending in "ja" in the top ten.
People with this name include:
- Soon Ja Du (born 1940), Korean American convenience store owner
- Lee Soon-ja ( 이순자, born 1939), South Korean former first lady, wife of Chun Doo-hwan
- Lee Sun-Ja (born 1978), South Korean sprint canoer
- Park Soon-Ja (born 1966), South Korean former field hockey player