Where the spelling 앨런 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 앨런 for Alan.
People in the list with this given name:
- 구스, 앨런 (하비) — Alan (Harvey) Guth
- 클레인, 로널드 앨런 — Klain, Ronald Alan
- 어브래머위츠, 앨런 (아이라) — Abramowitz, Alan (Ira)
…and 20 more in the list.
Sound by sound
A앨lan런
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
어윈Eowin · in the NIKL list (1)알란Allan · NIKL spelling of the Spanish name
Alan by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 297, 66,177 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 앨런: 23.
Korean names for Alan
These are the converter’s results for Alan as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
박이든Park IdeunBoy’s name · 53% sound matchHangul-only name — no hanja
이예준Lee YejunBoy’s name · 48% sound match
박이현Park IhyeonBoy’s name · 48% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics