Where the spelling 하퍼 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 하퍼 for Harper.
People in the list with this given name:
- 리, (넬) 하퍼 — (Nelle) Harper Lee
Sound by sound
Har하per퍼
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Harper means
Harper by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 102, 143,757 babies (96% girls, 4% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 하퍼: 1.
Korean names for Harper
These are the converter’s results for Harper 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.
김하나Kim HanaGirl’s name · 67% sound match하 河 river나 娜 elegant, graceful, delicate
김하은Kim HaeunGirl’s name · 66% sound match하 河 river은 恩 kindness, mercy, charity
김하윤Kim HayunGirl’s name · 56% 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