Your Name in Korean
Type your name and you'll see how it's written in Korean, in hangul, with South Korea's official standard for Spanish names. We also show you how it sounds and what comes from each syllable of your name.
Based on how it sounds
JavierHow it sounds: /xaˈbjeɾ/
- Jaxa하
- vierbjeɾ비에르
Approximate result, not an official translation. Before getting it tattooed or using it for anything permanent, check it with someone who speaks Korean or with a professional translator: many names have more than one correct form, and one stroke more or less changes the syllable (러 and 리, 스 and 즈).
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How it works
How to use it
- Type your name as you always write it, with its accents if it has any.
- See the result in hangul, horizontal or vertical.
- Below you'll see how your name sounds in the phonetic alphabet and what comes out in hangul from each syllable.
- Press Copy to take it with you. If it's for a tattoo, check it first with someone who speaks Korean.
How it is calculated
Two steps. First, the name is turned into its pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) with the rules of Spanish, which is written as it sounds, or with those of Catalan, Galician or Basque if the name comes from those languages; for names with x, j or g, that's decided by where the people with the name were born, according to Spain's statistics office (INE). Then each sound is written in hangul with the «외래어 표기법», South Korea's official standard for writing foreign words, which has a section for Spanish. On top of that there's a list of about six hundred names with the form most used in Korea for real people with that name, taken from Wikidata: Catalan forms the rules don't produce (Josep, 주제프) and names from other countries that people in Spain have, according to the INE (Jennifer, 제니퍼; Mohamed, 모하메드).
Name → pronunciation (IPA) → hangul
Sources
- 외래어 표기법 (문화체육관광부 고시 제2017-14호) — National Institute of Korean Language (국립국어원)
- The International Phonetic Alphabet and the IPA Chart — International Phonetic Association
- Apellidos y nombres más frecuentes — National Statistics Institute of Spain (INE)
- Wikidata: data licensing (CC0) — Wikimedia Foundation
About this calculator
What hangul is
Hangul is the Korean alphabet. Its letters are grouped into blocks, and each block is a syllable: a consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant. 카 is ka (ㅋ and ㅏ), and 를 has ㄹ at the start and at the end, with the support vowel ㅡ in the middle. Foreign names are written with it by how they sound, not by how they’re spelled.
From your name to hangul, in two steps
1. How it sounds. First the name is turned into its pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Spanish this is almost automatic, because it’s pronounced as it’s written: Javier is /xaˈbjeɾ/, with the j that sounds /x/ and the v that sounds /b/.
2. How that sound is written. Then each sound is written with the Korean letter the standard assigns to it: xa is 하, and bje, 비에. The final r can’t close a Korean syllable, so it forms its own with the support vowel ㅡ: 르. Result: 하비에르.
What Korean doesn’t have
Korean writes l and r with the same letter, ㄹ. It has no f or v: f is written with ㅍ (p) and v, like b, with ㅂ (Felipe, 펠리페; Víctor, 빅토르). The Spanish z, and c in ce and ci, go with ㅅ (s), and j, and g in ge and gi, with ㅎ (h): Jorge is 호르헤. Ll and y merge with the vowel after them (Guillermo, 기예르모), as does ñ (Begoña, 베고냐).
Double l and final consonants
The standard writes an l between vowels twice: once at the end of the previous syllable and once at the start of the next. That’s why Julio is 훌리오 and Carlos, 카를로스. L, n and m can close a syllable, and so can c and p before another consonant (Víctor, 빅토르); other final consonants form their own syllable with ㅡ: the s of Carlos is 스 and the d of David, 드. N before c or g is written ㅇ, as in Domingo (도밍고) or Ángel (앙헬).
Forms set by usage
Some names are written in Korea in a way that doesn’t come from the standard, almost always because they keep a trait of their language that the rules don’t see: the Catalan Josep is 주제프, with the o that sounds u in Catalan. For about six hundred names we use the form most seen in Korea for real people with that name, and we also show you the other usual forms.
Catalan, Galician and Basque names
Many names in Spain are Catalan, Galician or Basque, and we read them in their own language, whichever page you type them on. Only a few letters change: x, which in all three usually sounds sh (Xosé, 쇼세; Uxue, 우슈에), and in Catalan j and g before e or i, which sound like the French j (Jan, 잔; Jordi, 조르디). To know which language each name with x, j or g is read in, we look at where the people with that name were born, according to the INE: if at least two in three were born in Galicia, in the Basque Country and Navarre, or in the Catalan-speaking regions, it’s read in that language. If the name isn’t on that list, we work it out from the spelling: an x at the start or after n, r or i sounds sh (Xoel, 쇼엘; Breixo, 브레이쇼), and anywhere else, as in Spanish (Alexandra, 알렉산드라).
Names from other countries
More and more people in Spain and Latin America are called Chloe, Liam, Mohamed or Jennifer. For names from other countries that people in Spain have, according to the INE’s register of names, we use the form they’re written with in Korea for people all over the world: Chloe is 클로이 and Jennifer, 제니퍼. If the name is also Spanish, like Juliana or Regina, we read it in Spanish and show you separately how it’s written if it’s pronounced as in another language: Juliana is 훌리아나, and the Portuguese or English way, 줄리아나.
Frequently asked questions
What is hangul?
It's the Korean alphabet. It has a letter for each consonant and each vowel, but they aren't written in a row: they're grouped into one-syllable blocks. 하 is h (ㅎ) with a (ㅏ), and 르 is r (ㄹ) with a support vowel (ㅡ). Foreign names are written with it by how they sound.
Why do some names have more than one form?
Because Korean lacks some Spanish sounds and there's more than one way to get close to them, and because many names also exist in other languages, where they sound different. We give you the standard's form or, if usage has settled on another, the one most used in Korea for people with that name, and we show you the others.
What if my name isn't Spanish?
It works too. For names from other countries that people in Spain have, we use the form they're written with in Korea: Jennifer is 제니퍼 and Mohamed, 모하메드. If the name also exists in Spanish, like Juliana, we read it in Spanish (훌리아나) and show you the form from another language separately (줄리아나), in case you say it that way.
What if my name is Catalan, Galician or Basque?
We read it in its own language, whichever page you type it on. Only a few letters change: x, which in Galician, Basque and Catalan usually sounds sh (Uxue, 우슈에), and in Catalan j and g before e or i (Jan, 잔). To know which language each name is read in, we look at where the people with that name were born, according to Spain's statistics office (INE).
Can I get it tattooed?
You can, but bear in mind it's an approximate transcription, not a certified translation, and Solvemis isn't responsible for how it's used. Before getting any tattoo, check it with someone who speaks Korean or a professional translator, who can also check the strokes: in hangul, one stroke more or less changes the syllable (러 and 리, 스 and 즈), and a tattoo isn't easy to fix.
Updated 7 October 2026
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