Where the spelling 맥스웰 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 맥스웰 for Maxwell.
People in the list with this given name:
- 워시, 케빈 (맥스웰) — Warsh, Kevin (Maxwell)
- 스원, 웨인 (맥스웰) — Swan, Wayne (Maxwell)
- 리처즈, 조지 맥스웰 — Richards, George Maxwell
…and 1 more in the list.
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Maxwell means
Maxwell by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 243, 76,171 babies (0.9% girls, 99.1% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 맥스웰: 4.
Korean names for Maxwell
These are the converter’s results for Maxwell 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.
김민수Kim MinsuBoy’s name · 52% sound match
김민재Kim MinjaeBoy’s name · 45% sound match
김민성Kim MinseongBoy’s name · 45% 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