Where the spelling 벤저민 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 벤저민 for Benjamin.
People in the list with this given name:
- 새프디, 벤저민 — Safdie, Benjamin
- 보든, 벤저민 더글러스 — Bowden, Benjamin Douglas
- 주니스, 제이컵 (벤저민 리) — Junis, Jakob (Benjamin Lee)
…and 5 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Benjamin by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 22, 337,202 babies (0.1% girls, 99.9% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 벤저민: 8.
Korean names for Benjamin
These are the converter’s results for Benjamin 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.
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