Choose an era, a gender and how common the name should be, press Draw names, and get full Korean names with Hangul, hanja and a meaning for each syllable.
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Korean name
Eom Min-ho
엄민호 嚴敏豪
Say it: UM MIN-HO
A clever, sharp, and heroic person
Modern
Korean name
Kwon Bom
권봄
Say it: GWUHN BOM
Spring
Modern
Korean name
Shin Ji-yun
신지윤 申志潤
Say it: SHEEN JEE-YOON
An ambitious mind that enriches and nourishes others
Modern
Korean name
Min Hyo-rin
민효린 閔孝潾
Say it: MEEN HYOH-RIN
Pure, clear water symbolizing devotion and filial piety
Modern
Korean name
Ji I-jun
지이준 池怡俊
Say it: JEE EE-JOON
A joyful, talented, and handsome person
Modern
Korean name
Bing Ju-a
빙주아 氷珠雅
Say it: BEENG JOO-A
Elegant pearl
Modern
Glossary of these names
Cast board
Pin puts a card in the best open slot for its gender. Tap an empty slot first to choose the slot yourself.
Glossary
How a full Korean name is put together
A Korean name starts with the family name, then a given name that usually has two syllables. The tool draws from 62 family names and 274 given names. One result might be Han Seo-yun 한서윤, written in hanja (Chinese characters) as 韓瑞允. Open Details to see the syllables one by one. Deal a whole family gives one family name to a roles board.
The era filter: which names sound old
There are three settings. Modern names are what parents choose now, such as Seo-jun and Ha-yun. Mid-20th century is not history. It marks names that were very common for people born from the late 1960s to the 1980s, such as Yeong-hui and Hye-jin. In a modern story these names suit a mother or an older sister. Joseon is for historical settings. Notes in the data say many Joseon women had no given name in the official family registers, so a Joseon heroine's name is often a story choice.
Native Korean names and hanja
Switch on the native Korean option to get names with no hanja at all, such as Ha-neul (sky) and Bit-na (shining). They are ordinary Korean words, so there is one meaning for the whole name. For all other names, the hanja is one common way to write the sound. Real parents pick each hanja themselves, so the same sound can mean something else in another family. Syllable glosses are checked against the Unicode Unihan database, as explained in editorial standards. For a longer list, see Korean girl names and Korean boy names.
Questions
What does Mid-20th century mean on the era filter?
It means names popular for people born roughly from the late 1960s to the 1980s. It is a style of the time, not a historical period.
Why do some cards show no hanja?
Those are native Korean names, made from Korean words rather than Chinese characters. They show a whole-word meaning instead of syllable meanings.
Is the hanja on a card the only right one?
No. It is one common writing. Korean families choose characters one by one, so one sound can have several meanings.
Why does a card say Check meaning?
Some syllables sound like rude English words. For example dong and suk are flagged. The name is fine in Korean, but readers of an English translation may smile.