Random Korean Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Family names: the table 'From 2015 South Korean statistics' in English Wikipedia's 'List of Korean surnames' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Korean_surnames, wiki text read 2026-09-30), which reports Statistics Korea's 2015 census table of surnames (KOSIS, population 49,705,663, surnames used by five or more people) with each name's Hangul, hanja, Revised Romanization, McCune-Reischauer spelling, other romanizations and population. Listed: the 100 Hangul surnames with the largest 2015 population in that table, each with a band by that order (top 10, top 50, top 100); the population figures are not printed, because Statistics Korea's terms were not read. The spelling that leads a card is the one the table links to an article of its own (Kim, Lee, Park); where it links none, the Revised Romanization. The card then gives the Revised Romanization where it differs, up to three of the table's other romanizations (two where the line would run long), which it cites to a 2011 study of passport spellings, and the first hanja the table lists: one Hangul surname is shared by clans that write it with different hanja. Given names: English Wikipedia's 'List of the most popular given names in South Korea' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_popular_given_names_in_South_Korea, wiki text read 2026-09-30): its top-ten tables for boys and for girls born in 1940, 1945, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021, which the article cites to Korean newspapers, a baby-name site and a baby-care brand's report (by its notes the 2007, 2017 and 2019 tables cover part of the year). Every name in those tables is listed, 68 girls' and 63 boys' names, with the birth years whose table holds it; the counts are not printed. Wikipedia marks the counts of the 2021 table as failing verification; the article that table cites (https://www.hapskorea.com/what-are-the-most-popular-baby-names-in-korea-in-2021/, read 2026-09-30) was read and names the same ten boys' and ten girls' names, with no counts. The spelling that leads a given-name card is the 'common spelling' of the newest table that holds the name; other tables' spellings follow as 'also spelled'. Check by script, 2026-09-30: the Revised Romanization of all 100 family names and all 131 given names was computed from the Hangul by the romanization's letter table and agrees with the article's column in every case. The plan asked for a check against each name's own English Wiktionary entry; its categories of Korean given names hold fewer than twenty entries, so the computed check stands in its place. No meaning is printed for a given name: the hanja behind one Hangul spelling differ from person to person. x.type is what the Name type row filters on (family, family-50, family-10, girl, boy); x.era is what the birth-year row filters on (1940-1960, 1970-1990, 2004-2011, 2013-2021) and family cards carry none; x.ascii is the leading spelling in plain letters. Counted from this file: 231 cards, 100 family names (2 of two syllables: Hwangbo 황보, Namgung 남궁), 68 girls' names and 63 boys' names. Licence: Drawn from English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); the selection, the bands and the computed check of the romanization are our own work. The census figures behind the family-name order are Statistics Korea's and are not reproduced.