How to write “Joe or Jo” in Korean
조 jo
What Korean friends call you
- 조야 jo-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 조 씨 jo-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 Joe
- 조 315 (99%)
- 죠 3 (1%)
Korean labels of 318 people named Joe on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
Well-known people named Joe or Jo, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Joe Frazier — 조 프레이저
- Joe Pesci — 조 페시
- Joe Hart — 조 하트
- Joe Louis — 조 루이스
122,843 babies were named Joe in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 375th most common name.
Block by block
- 조 = ㅈ + ㅗ · 4 strokes
Also in 조: Joshua 조슈아 · Joseph 조셉 · Jordan 조던
More names: Bobby 보비 · Elias 엘리아스 · Brent 브렌트 · Sheila 실라 · Nora 노라
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