Your Korean Name
A quiet studio for discovering, composing, and understanding names written in Hangul.
The Journey
Hangul is a phonetic script of remarkable elegance — fourteen consonants and ten vowels, each shape a small architecture of sound. Before a name is chosen, we learn how the script breathes: how characters cluster into syllables, how each block carries both phonetics and feeling.
Korean names are a quiet poetry of two characters. One may speak of light (광), another of jade (옥); one of pine trees (송), another of grace (현). Together they form a wish — a single sentence the parents whisper into the future. Tell us a virtue, a season, a place, and we will compose names whose hanja roots resonate with that intention.
Each composition arrives as a small, considered artifact: the Hangul rendered in Nanum Myeongjo, its romanization, the meaning of every character, and a short calligrapher's note on the rhythm of its sounds. A name is not merely chosen. It is offered.
Delivery is quiet — by letter, with watercolor and ink.
View example names ↓A small gallery
Each card is a tiny design system of its own — the name, its romanization, and the meaning of every syllable, bordered in ink wash with a lattice corner.
A name that carries the stillness of a pond before the lotus opens.
Wisdom wide as an ocean — a name for a quiet mind.
A pure-Korean name: open weather, open future.
A favorite of recent decades — a clarity carried lightly.
The Studio
hangul.name is run as a small studio — closer to a calligrapher's atelier than a software product. Every name is composed by hand, with research into the family's wishes, the harmony of sounds, and the quiet weight of each hanja root.
We work with parents-to-be, adopted adults reclaiming a Korean identity, writers seeking authentic characters, and anyone for whom a name is a kind of small architecture.
Ha Ru — a single day, kept whole.
Begin a quiet conversation about your name.
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