How to write “Dan” in Korean
댄 daen
What Korean friends call you
- 댄아 dae-na — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 댄 씨 daen-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 Dan
- 댄 172 (99%)
- 단 2 (1%)
Korean labels of 174 people named Dan on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
Well-known people named Dan, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Dan Quayle — 댄 퀘일
- Dan Simmons — 댄 시먼스
- Dan Burn — 댄 번
- Dan Rather — 댄 래더
36,107 babies were named Dan in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 1028th most common name.
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