How to write “Max” in Korean
맥스 maek-seu
What Korean friends call you
- 맥스야 maek-seu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 맥스 씨 maek-seu-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 Max
- 맥스 105 (86%)
- 막스 17 (14%)
Korean labels of 122 people named Max on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Max Scherzer 맥스 (sometimes 막스); Max Muncy 맥스; Max Fried 맥스.
Well-known people named Max, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Max Perutz — 맥스 퍼루츠
- Max Steiner — 맥스 스타이너
- Max Roach — 맥스 로치
- Max Aarons — 맥스 에런스
112,206 babies were named Max in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 410th most common name.
Block by block
- 맥 = ㅁ + ㅐ + ㄱ · 7 strokes
Also in 맥: Mackenzie 맥켄지 · Maxwell 맥스웰
- 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · James 제임스
맥스 takes 10 strokes in all.
More names: Bradley 브래들리 · Spencer 스펜서 · Jeffrey 제프리 · Sophie 소피 · Derek 데릭
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