How to write “Leah” in Korean
레아 re-a
What Korean friends call you
- 레아야 re-a-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 레아 씨 re-a-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 Leah
- 리아 17 (71%)
- 레아 7 (29%)
Korean labels of 24 people named Leah on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 리아; most Koreans write 레아.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Leah Remini 레아; Leah Williamson 레아 (sometimes 리아).
Well-known people named Leah, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Leah Behn — 레아 이사도라 벤
- Leah Purcell — 레아 푸어셀
- Leah Ayres — 레아 에이리스
- Leah Gibson — 레아 깁슨
231,027 babies were named Leah in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 198th most common name.
Block by block
- 레 = ㄹ + ㅔ · 6 strokes
Also in 레: Grace 그레이스 · Rachel 레이첼 · Blake 블레이크
- 아 = ㅇ + ㅏ · 3 strokes
Also in 아: Joshua 조슈아 · Olivia 올리비아 · Noah 노아
레아 takes 9 strokes in all.
More names: Mary 메리 · Bailey 베일리 · Andrea 안드레아 · Evelyn 에블린 · Jesse 제시
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