Korean Female Name Generator

Korean female names follow the same structure as all Korean names: a one-syllable family name followed by a two-syllable given name, so in Kim Seo-yeon the family is Kim and she is called Seo-yeon by friends. What marks a name as feminine is the choice of syllables. Endings in -yeon, -eun, -ah, -hee, -jin, -mi, -young, -ji and -rin read as female, as do soft openers like Seo-, Ye-, Ha-, Ji-, Yu- and Chae-. Syllables such as -jun, -ho, -hyun, -woo and -seok lean male, though Ji-woo, Ha-yoon and Ha-neul are used for both.

Age shows in the name. Girls born since 2010 are overwhelmingly Seo-yeon, Ha-eun, Ji-woo, Seo-ah, Ye-jin and Soo-ah. Women in their twenties and thirties are more often Ji-hye, Eun-jung, Hyun-jung, Mi-kyung or Soo-jin. Grandmothers carry names ending in -sook, -ja, -hee and -soon (Young-sook, Jung-ja, Soon-ja, Mal-soon), many of them shaped by the Japanese occupation era. Since the 1980s parents have also chosen pure Korean words instead of hanja: Ha-neul (sky), Seul-gi (wisdom), Bo-ram (worthwhile), Na-rae (wing), Bit-na (shining), Saet-byeol (new star), A-reum (beauty) and single syllables like Sol (pine), Byeol (star) and Bom (spring).

The names here use roughly eighty family names, including rare ones like Namgung and Hwangbo, across every generation and style, in the hyphenated romanization used in passports and English media.