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Brandon in Korean: 브랜던

Brandon is written 브랜던 in Korean and read “Beuraendeon”. This is the spelling in the loanword usage list of the National Institute of Korean Language (NIKL), which sets Korea’s spelling standards. In US birth records for 2000–2025 it ranks No. 58.

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Read as: Beuraendeon

Where the spelling 브랜던 comes from

NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 브랜던 for Brandon.

People in the list with this given name:

  • 리그, 브랜던 — Riegg, Brandon
  • 해기, 브랜던 — Hagy, Brandon
  • 드루리, 브랜던 — Drury, Brandon S.

…and 1 more in the list.

Look up 브랜던 in the NIKL list (Korean)

Sound by sound

B브ran랜don던

Why it is spelled this way

  • Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
  • The official list spells Brandon as 브랜던, although the general rule gives 브랜든.

What Brandon means

“broom shrub + hill, dune”

From Old English brōm

Source: Wiktionary — Brandon · CC BY-SA 4.0

Brandon by the numbers

  • US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 58, 208,278 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
  • NIKL usage list — people with the given name 브랜던: 4.

Korean names for Brandon

These are the converter’s results for Brandon as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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Closest in sound among real Korean names.

이우리Lee UriUsed for boys and girls · 44% sound match
이은우Lee EunuBoy’s name · 36% sound match
이우진Lee UjinBoy’s name · 36% sound match

No surname given, so we picked 이, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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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