What’s my Korean name?
A real Korean name, chosen from your birthday the way Korean naming houses do it: by the five elements in your saju chart. Each syllable gets a hanja (Chinese character) that carries what your chart needs — with its meaning, its sound, and a seal card to share.
How Korean names work
A Korean name puts the family name first: Kim Seo-yun is Seo-yun of the Kim family. Most family names are one syllable, and most given names are two. Each syllable can be written in Hangul (the Korean alphabet) and, on official papers, in hanja — Chinese characters chosen for their meaning. Two people called Seo-yun can have completely different hanja, and so a different meaning.
Korea keeps an official list of characters allowed in given names (the inmyeong-yong hanja), and every character we use is a common naming character from that tradition.
How we chose yours
Korean naming houses (jakmyeongso) traditionally read a baby’s saju — the four pillars of the birth year, month, day and hour — and pick hanja that balance it. Every character belongs to one of the five elements, usually by its radical: 氵 and 雨 are Water, 木 and 艹 are Wood, 火 and 日 are Fire, 土 and 山 are Earth, 金 and 玉 are Metal.
We calculate your chart, find the element it needs most (and the one that feeds it), and choose a natural, popular Korean name whose syllables carry those elements. Your surname comes from your year pillar, which saju links to your family roots. Prefer a different surname? Pick it from the list — your given name stays tuned to your chart.
Questions
Is this my “real” Korean name? It’s a name built the traditional way, for fun and for meaning. Many people use theirs as a nickname, a username, or a gift for a Korean-learning journey.
Why does my name change if I change the style? Each style has its own pool of names. Within a style, the same birthday always gives the same name.
How is this different from other Korean name generators? Most use a table of birth month and day. Ours reads your actual saju chart, with solar terms and the Korean calendar, and tells you why each character was chosen.
Do I need my birth time? Not for the name. For a full chart with all four pillars, try a free reading.