Korean baby naming · One name free · Or read a name you already have, free
A Korean name for your baby,
chosen from the due date
A chart needs a birth, but a name is chosen before one. Two of the four pillars are already fixed by the due window — the year, and usually the month — and those two are enough to say which elements the child will be short of. One real, registrable Korean name free, chosen so its sounds carry what the pillars lack. The full report is five, with why each suits this child and which hanja to write it in — each with its passport spelling, and each hanja marked if Japan's registry takes it too.
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What's in the full report
- Five names instead of one, each with why it suits this child
- Which hanja to write each in, what those characters mean, and their stroke counts
- Passport romanization and katakana for every name; hanja marked KR + JP where Japan's registry accepts it too
- How many children have been given the name since 2008, so you know whether there will be two in the class
- The four stroke-count figures for every spelling — printed, without a verdict
- A second list of five if the first misses, and a free re-read after the birth
One name free. Five names, why each suits the child, and which hanja to write them in — $30, once. The report describes the name, not the child.
For Korean-Japanese families
A few hundred kanji Japan accepts are not on Korea's list as written — and the ward office in Japan will not tell you. 凪 and 冴 have no Korean counterpart at all; everyday forms like 内, 伝 and 団 are held by Korea only in their traditional shapes (內, 傳, 團).So every spelling here is marked when Japan's registry accepts every character as written. About 2,800 sit on both lists; pick one of those and the same name registers in both countries.
How the five are chosen
- Only names in actual use. Candidates come from the Supreme Court's birth-registration tallies, 2008 onward — not from combining characters until something looks like a name.
- Only characters the family register accepts — the 인명용 한자 list, taken from the court's own service. It returns 9,495 registrable characters; 405 of those exist only in the court's private numbering, with no form a font can draw, so 9,090 are usable here.
- The sounds have to flow. Each syllable's opening consonant carries an element, and a name is kept only when every step feeds the next (상생) rather than fights it. Which consonant carries which element follows the assignment naming practice uses — ㅇ·ㅎ as 土, ㅁ·ㅂ·ㅍ as 水, the 『훈민정음운해』 line. The 훈민정음 해례본 puts those two the other way round, and schools divide there.
- Not last decade's name, and not the one there will be three of in the classroom. Both are read from the same yearly rankings.
- Every name comes with its passport spelling — 국어의 로마자 표기법, the government's system — and its katakana, and each hanja spelling says whether Japan's birth registry accepts those characters too. About 2,800 characters are on both countries' lists. Korean-side checkers exist; the overlap with Japan's registry is the part nothing else shows.
After the birthOnce the child is born, come back with the actual birth date — it costs nothing. The two settled pillars are read again against the day the child actually arrived.
No lucky-or-unlucky verdicts here
The 81-figure verdict tables trace to one author — 熊崎健翁, 『姓名の神秘』 (1929) and 『熊崎式姓名学大奥義』 (1931, openly published by Japan's National Diet Library) — and rest on examples of famous people rather than on any count (Okada 2023). Korean scholarship has concluded that no school of name-reading has been validated (Kwon 2019, 2023) and traced the 81-figure method to the 1940 forced-name-change period (Kim 2014). So the 사격 figures are computed and printed, and nothing is judged by them. The sources are listed below.
Plain facts before you pay
- Made by SJ Global (Busan) from the Supreme Court's published birth registrations and its 인명용 한자 list.
- Shown on this screen the moment payment clears; print it or save it as a PDF from the report.
- If the written part fails to generate, the names still show and the fee is refunded — see Refunds in the footer.
- Not part of the subscription — this report is bought on its own, once. A subscription key does not open it.
- Buying for someone else? Forward the licence key from your receipt; they enter it at Find my purchase.
Sources
- 김만태, 「창씨개명 시기에 전파된 일본 성명학(姓名學)의 영향」, 동아시아문화연구 57 (2014)
- 권익기, 『한국 성명학의 작명 관련 비판적 연구』, 동방문화대학원대학교 박사학위논문 (2019)
- 권익기, 「주요 성명학의 작명법 비판적 고찰」, 역사와 융합 7(4) (2023)
- 권익기, 「한글소리 이름짓기의 비판적 고찰」, 한국학 44(1) (2021)
- 岡田誠, 「熊崎式姓名判断の源流」, 人体科学 32(1) (2023)
- 熊崎健翁, 『熊崎式姓名学大奥義』 天·地·人之巻, 五聖閣 (1931) — 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション pid 1104854·1104862·1104872, インターネット公開
- 대조한 공개 81수 표 (2026-09-05): sajuabc.com 「성명학 수리 해설」 · kimtaku.com 「81수리이론」 · seimei-handan.com 「画数の意味」
- 이재승·김만태, 「한국 성씨한자의 자원오행에 대한 고찰」, 문화와융합 40(3) (2018)
CalculatedWorked out from a birth chart by fixed rules. The same details always give the same result.