How to write “Evan” in Korean
에반 e-ban
What Korean friends call you
- 에반아 e-ba-na — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 에반 씨 e-ban-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 Evan
- 에번 31 (63%)
- 에반 18 (37%)
Korean labels of 49 people named Evan on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 에번; most Koreans write 에반.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Evan Peters 에반 (sometimes 에번); Evan Longoria 에반 (sometimes 에번); Evan Rachel Wood 에반 (sometimes 에번).
Well-known people named Evan, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Evan Fournier — 에반 푸르니에
- Evan Spiegel — 에반 스피겔
- Evan Ferguson — 에반 퍼거슨
- Evan Taubenfeld — 에반 타우벤펠드
283,230 babies were named Evan in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 149th most common name.
Block by block
- 에 = ㅇ + ㅔ · 4 strokes
- 반 = ㅂ + ㅏ + ㄴ · 7 strokes
Also in 반: Ivan 이반 · Giovanni 조반니 · Esteban 에스테반
에반 takes 11 strokes in all.
More names: Isaiah 아이제이아 · Mia 미아 · Jason 제이슨 · Anna 안나 · Connor 코너
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