How to write “Emma” in Korean
엠마 em-ma
What Korean friends call you
- 엠마야 em-ma-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 엠마 씨 em-ma-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 Emma
- 에마 78 (76%)
- 엠마 24 (24%)
Korean labels of 102 people named Emma on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 에마; most Koreans write 엠마.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Emma Watson 엠마 (sometimes 에마); Emma Stone 엠마 (sometimes 에마); Emma Raducanu 에마 (sometimes 엠마).
Well-known people named Emma, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Emma Morano — 엠마 모라노
- Emma Bonino — 엠마 보니노
- Emma Lazarus — 엠마 라자러스
543,148 babies were named Emma in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 60th most common name.
Block by block
- 엠 = ㅇ + ㅔ + ㅁ · 7 strokes
Also in 엠: Emmanuel 엠마누엘
- 마 = ㅁ + ㅏ · 5 strokes
Also in 마: Michael 마이클 · Jeremiah 제러마이아 · Maria 마리아
엠마 takes 12 strokes in all.
More names: Ethan 에단 · Madison 매디슨 · John 존 · Olivia 올리비아 · Brandon 브랜든
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