Where the spelling 세스 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 세스 for Seth.
People in the list with this given name:
- 볼러, 애덤 (세스) — Boehler, Adam (Seth)
- 클라먼, 세스 (앤드루) — Klarman, Seth (Andrew)
- 로건, 세스 — Rogen, Seth
…and 1 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Se세th스
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Seth means
Seth by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 293, 66,493 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 세스: 4.
Korean names for Seth
These are the converter’s results for Seth 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.
김세준Kim SejunBoy’s name · 67% sound match
김시후Kim SihuBoy’s name · 61% sound match
김시우Kim SiuBoy’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