How to write “Joseph” in Korean

조셉 jo-sep Listen to 조셉, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 조셉아 jo-se-ba — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 조셉 씨 jo-sep-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 Joseph

• 조셉 81 (100%)

Korean labels of 81 people named Joseph on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 조지프; most Koreans write 조셉.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Joseph Gordon-Levitt 조셉 (sometimes 조지프); Joseph Quinn 조셉 (sometimes 조지프); Joseph Fiennes 조지프 (sometimes 조셉).

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

• Joseph Barbera — 조셉 버베라
• Joseph Schildkraut — 조셉 쉴드크로트
• Joseph Cook — 조셉 쿡

1,450,992 babies were named Joseph in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 10th most common name.

Block by block

• 조 = ㅈ + ㅗ · 4 strokes
  • ㅈ 지읒 (j) · 2 strokes
  • ㅗ 오 (o) · 2 strokes

  Also in 조: Joshua 조슈아 · Jordan 조던 · Jonathan 조나단

• 셉 = ㅅ + ㅔ + ㅂ · 9 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes
  • ㅂ 비읍 (b / p) · 4 strokes

조셉 takes 13 strokes in all.

More names: Anthony 앤서니 · David 데이비드 · Alexander 알렉산더 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · Ryan 라이언

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