The 20 most popular Korean boy names of 2025
With hangul, romanization, how many babies got each name, and audio.
The Supreme Court of Korea publishes how many babies are registered under each given name. This list takes the 20 names most registered for boys in 2025.
Names
- Rank 1도윤Doyun
2,336 boys (1.71%)
Rank in 2024: 3
- Rank 2이준Ijun
1,958 boys (1.44%)
Rank in 2024: 1
- Rank 3하준Hajun
1,911 boys (1.40%)
Rank in 2024: 2
- Rank 4시우Siu
1,797 boys (1.32%)
Rank in 2024: 5
- Rank 5도현Dohyeon
1,706 boys (1.25%)
Rank in 2024: 12
- Rank 6이안Ian
1,653 boys (1.21%)
Rank in 2024: 9
- Rank 7태오Taeo
1,637 boys (1.20%)
Rank in 2024: 10
- Rank 8서준Seojun
1,598 boys (1.17%)
Rank in 2024: 6
- Rank 9선우Seonu
1,541 boys (1.13%)
Rank in 2024: 7
- Rank 10은우Eunu
1,495 boys (1.10%)
Rank in 2024: 4
- Rank 11수호Suho
1,458 boys (1.07%)
Rank in 2024: 11
- Rank 12이현Ihyeon
1,444 boys (1.06%)
Rank in 2024: 13
- Rank 13도하Doha
1,442 boys (1.06%)
Rank in 2024: 15
- Rank 14지호Jiho
1,387 boys (1.02%)
Rank in 2024: 14
- Rank 15우주Uju
1,385 boys (1.02%)
Rank in 2024: 16
- Rank 16유준Yujun
1,284 boys (0.94%)
Rank in 2024: 8
- Rank 17은호Eunho
1,278 boys (0.94%)
Not in the 2024 top 20
- Rank 18윤우Yunu
1,275 boys (0.93%)
Not in the 2024 top 20
- Rank 19주원Juwon
1,154 boys (0.85%)
Rank in 2024: 18
- Rank 20시윤Siyun
1,153 boys (0.85%)
Not in the 2024 top 20
About this list
Of the 136,381 boys registered that year, 30,892 (22.65%) got one of them.
Counts are provisional and follow the date of registration.
Sources and credits
- Ranking, counts and shares: 대법원 전자가족관계등록시스템, 상위 출생신고 이름 현황 (Supreme Court of Korea, electronic family relations registration system, top names in birth registrations), national figures for 2025 and 2024, retrieved 30 September 2026. Used under the court's copyright policy. A share is the count over all births registered that year for that gender.
- Romanization: Revised Romanization of Korean, the official system of the National Institute of Korean Language.
- Audio: synthetic speech from Google Cloud Text-to-Speech. See the about page.