How to write “Matthew or Mathew” in Korean
매튜 mae-tyu
What Korean friends call you
- 매튜야 mae-tyu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 매튜 씨 mae-tyu-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 Matthew
- 매슈 142 (75%)
- 매튜 48 (25%)
Korean labels of 190 people named Matthew on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 매슈; most Koreans write 매튜.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Matthew Perry 매튜 (sometimes 매슈); Matthew Stafford 매슈 (sometimes 매튜); Matthew Broderick 매슈 (sometimes 매튜).
Well-known people named Matthew or Mathew, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Matthew Shepard — 매튜 셰퍼드
- Matthew Fontaine Maury — 매튜 퐁텐 모리
- Matthew Dellavedova — 매튜 델라베도바
- Matthew Koma — 매튜 코마
1,590,544 babies were named Matthew in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 8th most common name.
Block by block
- 매 = ㅁ + ㅐ · 6 strokes
Also in 매: Madison 매디슨 · Madeline 매들린 · Mckenzie 매켄지
- 튜 = ㅌ + ㅠ · 6 strokes
Also in 튜: Stuart 스튜어트
매튜 takes 12 strokes in all.
More names: Joshua 조슈아 · Emily 에밀리 · Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Daniel 다니엘 · Andrew 앤드루
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