Paju

Borrowed from Korean 파주(坡州) (Paju).

Paju

1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
   • 2020 October 14, Antonia Noori Farzan, Siobhán O'Grady, “A Canadian spin studio followed public health guidelines. But 61 people still caught the coronavirus.”, in The Washington Post (Americas section)‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 October 2020‎^[2]:

     In August, South Korea confirmed dozens of cases linked to a single Starbucks in the city of Paju where many customers did not wear masks.

   • 2023 November 25, Jin Yu Young, “South Korea’s City of Books”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 November 2023‎^[4]:

     A satellite city 22 miles northwest of Seoul, South Korea, Paju is small, with a population of around half a million. The streets are quieter than those of the bustling capital, the air cleaner and the pace of life half a beat slower.

Paju (genitive Paju, partitive Paju(t))

1. a surname

< paju

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑju/, [ˈpɑ̝ju]
• Rhymes: -ɑju
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧ju
• Hyphenation^(key): Pa‧ju

Paju

1. a Finnish surname

• Paju is the 1202^nd (tied with 1 other surname) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 704 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.