How to write “Adam” in Korean
아담 a-dam
What Korean friends call you
- 아담아 a-da-ma — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 아담 씨 a-dam-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work
Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.
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Korean spellings of Adam
- 애덤 205 (84%)
- 아담 40 (16%)
Korean labels of 245 people named Adam on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 애덤; most Koreans write 아담.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Adam Sandler 아담 (sometimes 애덤); Adam Driver 아담 (sometimes 애덤); Adam Wainwright 아담 (sometimes 애덤).
Well-known people named Adam, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Adam Mickiewicz — 아담 미츠키에비치
- Adam Weishaupt — 아담 바이스하우프트
- Adam Małysz — 아담 마위시
- Adam Zagajewski — 아담 자가예프스키
562,008 babies were named Adam in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 55th most common name.
Block by block
- 아 = ㅇ + ㅏ · 3 strokes
Also in 아: Joshua 조슈아 · Olivia 올리비아 · Noah 노아
- 담 = ㄷ + ㅏ + ㅁ · 7 strokes
아담 takes 10 strokes in all.
More names: Gavin 개빈 · Megan 메건 · Jasmine 자스민 · Eric 에릭 · Sydney 시드니
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