Where the spelling 로버트 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 로버트 for Robert.
People in the list with this given name:
- 홀, 로버트 (어니스트) — Robert (Ernest) Hall
- 케네디, 로버트 (프랜시스) (2세) — Robert (Francis) Kennedy Jr.
- 케일리프, 로버트 — Califf, Robert
…and 85 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Robert means
Robert by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 73, 193,884 babies (0.1% girls, 99.9% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 로버트: 88.
Korean names for Robert
These are the converter’s results for Robert 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.
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