Where the spelling 리오 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 리오 for Leo.
People in the list with this given name:
- 버라드커, 리오 — Varadkar, Leo
- 햄프턴, 라이어널 리오 — Hampton, Lionel Leo
- 버토스, 리오 — Bertos, Leo
Sound by sound
Le리o오
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Leo means
Leo by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 159, 104,784 babies (0.3% girls, 99.7% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 리오: 3.
Korean names for Leo
These are the converter’s results for Leo 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.
박리오Park RioBoy’s name · 100% sound match
박리온Park RionUsed for boys and girls · 87% sound match
박레오Park ReoBoy’s name · 83% sound matchHangul-only name — no hanja
No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Meaning
Korean names from what Leo means.
Your name means: lion (from Latin leō)
박사윤Park SayunUsed for boys and girls · Meaning: Brave, strong
박리오Park RioYour name, Korean styleHangul-only name — no hanja
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