Korean Name · From Your Chart
A Korean name,
from your chart.
Not a name picked for its sound alone. We read your Four Pillars for the elements they are short of, then choose a real name Korean parents give — one whose sounds carry what your chart lacks. One name free.
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What's in the full report
- Three names chosen from your chart, each a real name Koreans have
- The hanja for each, with what every character means
- Why each name suits your chart — the sound, and the elements it carries
- How to say and write it: romanization and katakana
- The four stroke-count figures, printed without a verdict
- A name seal for each name, and a PDF with a cover
How the name is chosenHow this is calculated
What your chart is short of
Your birth date, and your birth time if you give it, become three or four pillars of two characters each. Every character belongs to one of the five elements. The page looks for elements that no character of your chart carries at all; those are what your chart is short of.
Many charts carry all five somewhere. In that case the page takes the two elements your chart weighs least — the same two the rest of this site calls your balancing elements — and chooses for those instead. The result says which of the two cases yours is.
Where the names come from
Only from real names. Korea's Supreme Court publishes the names given to newborns each year, and every name offered here has been given to real children since 2008, with the count printed beside it. Nothing is assembled from characters, so there is no name here that a Korean would find strange.
Because the statistics begin in 2008, these are names Korean parents are choosing now. A Korean will hear them as modern names. The page reads them for today — current, not everywhere at once — because you are taking the name today.
How a name carries an element
By its sound. In the traditional reading called 발음오행, the opening consonant of each syllable belongs to an element according to where the mouth makes it. The page reads your surname and the name together, syllable by syllable, and prefers names whose sounds include what your chart is short of and flow into each other.
Every name can be written in hanja that a Korean birth registration accepts, and the court's own gloss gives what each character means. The figures counted from the strokes are printed but not judged: the tables that call them lucky or unlucky have no evidence behind them.
What is free, and what this is not
The free result gives what your chart is short of and one name, with how to say it and how many children carry it. The full report gives three names, the hanja for each with every character's meaning, the stroke figures, and why each suits your chart, written for you after payment. Nothing on the free screen uses a language model.
This is a Korean name to use — with Korean friends, in class, online, on a seal. It is not a legal change of name, and it does not promise anything about the person who carries it: a name has a meaning and a sound, and that is what is described.
Read how the chart itself is built →