How to write “Leon” in Korean

레온 re-on Listen to 레온, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 레온아 re-o-na — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 레온 씨 re-on-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 Leon

• 리언 34 (67%)
• 레온 15 (29%)
• 리온 2 (4%)

Korean labels of 51 people named Leon on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

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

• Leon Goretzka — 레온 고레츠카
• Leon Festinger — 레온 페스팅거
• Leon Bailey — 레온 베일리
• Leon Uris — 레온 우리스

67,760 babies were named Leon in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 655th most common name.

Block by block

• 레 = ㄹ + ㅔ · 6 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes

  Also in 레: Grace 그레이스 · Rachel 레이첼 · Blake 블레이크

• 온 = ㅇ + ㅗ + ㄴ · 4 strokes
  • ㅇ 이응 (silent / ng) · 1 stroke
  • ㅗ 오 (o) · 2 strokes
  • ㄴ 니은 (n) · 1 stroke

레온 takes 10 strokes in all.

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