Where the spelling 토머스 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 토머스 for Thomas.
People in the list with this given name:
- 투건하트, 토머스 — Tugendhat, Thomas
- 멍거, 찰스 토머스 — Munger, Charles Thomas
- 매콜, 마이클 (토머스) — McCaul, Michael (Thomas)
…and 51 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Tho토ma머s스
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Thomas means
Thomas by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 56, 212,195 babies (0.1% girls, 99.9% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 토머스: 54.
Korean names for Thomas
These are the converter’s results for Thomas 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.
김태오Kim TaeoBoy’s name · 57% sound match
김도하Kim DohaBoy’s name · 56% sound match
김도현Kim DohyeonBoy’s name · 50% 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