How to write “Alex” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 알렉스야 al-lek-seu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 알렉스 씨 al-lek-seu-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 Alex

• 알렉스 98 (58%)
• 앨릭스 71 (42%)

Korean labels of 169 people named Alex on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 앨릭스; most Koreans write 알렉스.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Alex Caruso 알렉스 (sometimes 앨릭스); Alex Bregman 알렉스 (sometimes 앨릭스); Alex Ferguson 알렉스 (sometimes 앨릭스).

Well-known people named Alex, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa — 알렉스 호드리구 지아스 다 쿠스타
• Alex Telles — 알렉스 텔레스
• Alex Meret — 알렉스 메레트
• Àlex Corretja — 알렉스 코레자

252,585 babies were named Alex in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 172nd most common name.

Block by block

• 알 = ㅇ + ㅏ + ㄹ · 6 strokes
  • ㅇ 이응 (silent / ng) · 1 stroke
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 알: Alexander 알렉산더 · Alexis 알렉시스 · Alexandra 알렉산드라

• 렉 = ㄹ + ㅔ + ㄱ · 7 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes
  • ㄱ 기역 (g / k) · 1 stroke

  Also in 렉: Alexander 알렉산더 · Alexis 알렉시스 · Alexandra 알렉산드라

• 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅡ 으 (eu) · 1 stroke

  Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · James 제임스

알렉스 takes 16 strokes in all.

More names: Nicole 니콜 · Ella 엘라 · Landon 랜던 · Julian 줄리안 · Ian 이안

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