Modern Korean names

This collection uses era tendency rather than gender. The dataset gives each syllable in a top Korean match an era tag, and a page appears here only when both syllables are tagged modern. In this context, modern means the individual syllables are current in the naming dataset. It does not claim that the complete two-syllable combination is common, newly invented, or associated with one particular birth year.

Korean given names are read in hangul, while their specific meanings usually come from the associated hanja. Several permitted hanja can have the same Korean reading, so a current-sounding pair does not have one automatic meaning. Each linked page separates the hangul match, romanization, and chosen hanja so those parts are not conflated.

The lists are divided by the first hangul syllable of the top Korean match. A heading such as “Korean matches beginning with 리” groups the Korean results regardless of the English name’s initial. Within a section, entries can share the opening sound but use different second syllables and character meanings.