Your name in Korean

How the converter works

Korean writes foreign names in hangul by sound. The tool does not swap letters one by one. It works out how your name sounds in the language you pick, then writes the closest sounds Korean has.

The writing rules follow the loanword orthography of the National Institute of Korean Language. Korean has no sound for some letters, such as a plain f or z, so it uses the nearest ones. Some names also gain a vowel to make them easy to say.

Pick the language your name is said in. The same letters sound different in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian, and the result changes with them.

Worked examples

• Jorge (Spanish) → 호르헤 horeuhe
• George (English) → 조지 joji
• María (Spanish) → 마리아 maria
• José (Spanish) → 호세 hose

Questions

Why is Jorge not the same as George?

The tool follows the sound, not the spelling. In Spanish, the J in Jorge is a breathy h-like sound, so with Spanish selected you get 호르헤. The English name George starts with a "j" sound, and with English selected it gives 조지.

Why does the same name come out differently by language?

Letters carry different sounds in each language. The G in a Spanish name and the G in an English one are not the same sound, so the tool asks which one you mean.

Will it match how a famous person is written?

Not always. Well-known people often have a spelling that newspapers and dictionaries settled on years ago, even when it does not follow the rules. The tool follows the sound rules, so it can differ from that established form.

Is my name sent anywhere?

No. The conversion runs in your browser.