Ji-won, also spelled Jee-won or Chi-won, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 46 hanja with the reading "ji" and 35 hanja with the reading "won" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Though it has never been one of the top 10 names for newborn boys or girls in South Korea, in the 2000s it began to become more common, as part of a rising trend of giving unisex names to babies.
People with this name include:
Entertainers
Do Ji-won (born 1968), South Korean actress
Ye Ji-won (born 1973), South Korean actress
Uhm Ji-won (born 1977), South Korean actress
Eun Ji-won (born 1978), South Korean male rapper
Ha Ji-won (born Jeon Hae-rim, 1978), South Korean actress
Wang Ji-won (born 1988), South Korean actress
Yang Jiwon (born 1988), South Korean singer, member of girl group Spica
Kim Ji-won (actress) (born 1992), South Korean actress
Bobby (rapper) (born 1995 as Kim Jiwon), member of South Korean boy group iKON
Sportspeople
Kim Ji-won (boxer) (born 1959), South Korean male boxer
Woo Ji-won (born 1973), South Korean male basketball player
Jang Ji-won (born 1979), South Korean female taekwondo practitioner
Seo Jee-won (born 1994), South Korean female freestyle skier
Others
Park Ji-won (1737–1805), Joseon Dynasty male philosopher
Park Jie-won (born 1942), South Korean male politician
Kim Chi-won (1943–2013), South Korean female writer
Yang Ji-won (academic) (born 1949), South Korean male chemistry professor
Vittoria Yeo (Korean name Yeo Ji-won, born 1980), South Korean operatic soprano
