Where the spelling 에마 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 에마 for Emma.
People in the list with this given name:
- 라두카누, 에마 — Emma Răducanu
- 매키언, 에마 — McKeon, Emma
- 톰슨, 에마 — Thompson, Emma
Sound by sound
E에mma마
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
너태샤Neotaesya · in the NIKL list (1)
What Emma means
Emma by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 2, 462,691 babies (99.9% girls, 0.1% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 에마: 3.
Korean names for Emma
These are the converter’s results for Emma as a girl’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.
이예나Lee YenaGirl’s name · 78% sound match
박이나Park InaGirl’s name · 72% sound match
이예은Lee YeeunGirl’s name · 62% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 이, 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