Your name in Korean

Free tool

Type your name and see it in Hangul, the way Koreans would write it. Hear it read aloud, then copy it for a form, a phone contract or a delivery app.

Your name

Language of the name

How to write your name in Korean

1Type your name in the box, the way it is written in your passport or in your own language.
2Check the language button. The tool detects Vietnamese, Russian and Japanese letters for you.
3See your name in Hangul and press Listen to hear it.
4Copy the spelling you like. If there are other common spellings, they are listed too.

Good to know

Foreign names are written in Korean by sound, not by meaning. 마이클 is Michael because it sounds like Michael.
Many names have more than one spelling in use. Pick one and use it the same way on every form.
Chinese names: type them in pinyin (Wang Xiaoming). Japanese names: type them in romaji or kana.
Chinese and Japanese names are spelled from the official tables. For other names, a part that is not on our checked list is spelled by sound rules and marked as a guess. Ask a Korean friend to check it.

How Korea spells foreign names

Korea writes foreign words and names by how they sound in the original language. The National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원) publishes the spelling rules (외래어 표기법), with its own rules for English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and many other languages.

That is why Nguyễn is 응우옌, Wang is 왕 and Tanaka is 다나카. Everyday spellings sometimes differ from the rule spellings, so the tool shows both when they differ.

Going the other way, Korean names in English follow the Revised Romanization of Korean (국어의 로마자 표기법). Names are written syllable by syllable, and a hyphen between the syllables of a given name is allowed: Hong Gil-dong. Family names can keep the spelling a family already uses, such as Kim, Lee and Park.

Questions

How do I write my name in Korean?

Type it in the box above. You get the spelling Koreans would normally use, written in Hangul, and you can hear it read aloud. Korean spells foreign names by sound, so the result matches how your name is said, not what it means.

Is this a Korean name generator?

No. It writes your own name in Korean letters, for forms and apps that ask for your name in Hangul.

Why are there several spellings for my name?

Some names have an official spelling and a more common everyday one, or the sound can be heard two ways. Choose one and use it the same way everywhere.

How do I write a Korean name in English?

Switch to "Korean name in English" and type the name in Hangul. You get the official romanization and the spellings many people use for common family names.

Why is 김 written Kim and not Gim?

The romanization rules would spell 김 as Gim letter by letter, but they leave family names to be set separately. The rules also let people keep a spelling they already use, so families keep Kim, Lee (이), Park (박) and Choi (최).