Where the spelling 알레한드로 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 알레한드로 for Alejandro.
Wiktionary records Alejandro as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.
People in the list with this given name:
- 피사, 알레한드로 — Alejandro Piza
- 셀라야, 알레한드로 — Zelaya, Alejandro
- 기예 (알바레스), 알레한드로 (레네 엘레오도로) — Guillier (Álvarez), Alejandro (René Eleodoro)
…and 3 more in the list.
Sound by sound
a알le레jan한d드ro로
Why it is spelled this way
- This looks like a name in Spanish, so the official Spanish spelling is shown first.
- Matches the National Institute of Korean Language usage list.
- l is final ㄹ before a consonant or at the end, ㄹㄹ before a vowel (Ch.3 Sec.4 Art.5).
What Alejandro means
Alejandro by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 232, 79,602 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 알레한드로: 6.
Korean names for Alejandro
These are the converter’s results for Alejandro 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.
김리한Kim RihanBoy’s name · 53% sound match
김이안Kim IanBoy’s name · 44% sound match
김유안Kim YuanBoy’s name · 44% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics