Where the spelling 라일리 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 라일리 for Riley.
People in the list with this given name:
- 키오, (대니엘) 라일리 — Keough, (Danielle) Riley
Sound by sound
Ri라일ley리
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Riley means
Riley by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 64, 202,960 babies (65% girls, 35% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 라일리: 1.
Korean names for Riley
These are the converter’s results for Riley with no gender chosen — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
박라엘Park RaelGirl’s name · 82% sound matchHangul-only name — no hanja
박로이Park RoiBoy’s name · 67% sound match
박다인Park DainGirl’s name · 64% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 박, 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