Korean Male Name Generator

A Korean man's name is almost always three syllables: a one-syllable family name followed by a two-syllable given name, written surname first, so Kim Min-jun is Mr. Kim whose given name is Min-jun. The five biggest surnames (Kim, Lee, Park, Choi and Jung) cover about half the country, followed by Kang, Cho, Yoon, Jang, Lim, Han, Oh, Seo, Shin, Kwon, Hwang, Ahn and Song. Two-syllable surnames like Namgung, Hwangbo or Sunwoo are rare enough that a character carrying one is instantly memorable.

Male given names are built from hanja characters chosen for meaning and sound. Syllables like Jun (talented), Woo (excellent), Min (clever), Hyun (wise), Seong (accomplished), Ho (great) and Tae (big) show up constantly, which is why Min-jun, Seo-jun, Do-yun, Si-woo and Ha-jun have topped birth charts since the 2010s. Men born in the 1980s and 90s are more often Ji-hoon, Hyun-woo, Sung-min, Jae-hyun or Dong-hyun, while grandfathers answer to names ending in -soo, -ho, -chul, -gil or -sik such as Chul-soo, Young-ho and Man-sik. Native Korean names with no hanja, like Ha-neul (sky), Ba-da (sea) and Han-gyeol (steady), have grown common since the 1990s, and single-syllable names like Sol or Gun stand out.

The generator writes names in the hyphenated romanization used in passports and English media; Seo-jun, Seojun and Seo Jun are all the same name.