Fun Facts About the Name Taejon
- 189 babies named Taejon: U.S. records list 189 babies given the name Taejon from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Taejon Mean?
Taejon is best understood as a romanized Korean form, not as a single given name with one fixed meaning. The spelling matches an older English rendering of the city name 대전 (Daejeon), written in hanja as 大田, "great field." The city's older native Korean name, Hanbat (한밭), has the same sense. If Taejon is a personal name, it could represent the two-syllable Korean name 태전; because Korean given names can use different hanja for the same hangul, the spelling alone does not establish whether the meaning is "great field" or something else.
Taejon Name History & Origins
The form Taejon reflects the McCune-Reischauer romanization Taejŏn, in which the Korean vowel ㅓ was written with ŏ. English-language maps and gazetteers often simplified the diacritic to Taejon. Since South Korea adopted Revised Romanization in 2000, the city is usually spelled Daejeon; the older spelling survives in names and older English texts.
As a Korean personal name, 태전 would be chosen syllable by syllable, and its hanja would determine the meaning. The spelling Taejon does not identify those hanja, so it cannot be treated as a variant of an unrelated English name or assigned a single documented personal-name history.
How Popular is the Name Taejon?
Taejon has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2004. Its best rank was #4,578 in 2004.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,662 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #12,049 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #10,637 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #5,700 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #7,173 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2008 | #6,357 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2007 | #6,221 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #6,056 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2005 | #5,840 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2004 | #4,578 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2003 | #6,203 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2002 | #6,030 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2001 | #7,433 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2000 | #7,329 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1999 | #5,610 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1998 | #7,463 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1997 | #9,122 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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