How to write “Maxwell” in Korean

맥스웰 maek-seu-wel Listen to 맥스웰, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 맥스웰아 maek-seu-we-ra — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 맥스웰 씨 maek-seu-wel-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 Maxwell

• 맥스웰 9 (100%)

Korean labels of 9 people named Maxwell on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Maxwell Frost 맥스웰.

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

• Maxwell D. Taylor — 맥스웰 테일러
• Maxwell Jenkins — 맥스웰 젠킨스
• Maxwell Caulfield — 맥스웰 콜필드
• Maxwell Perkins — 맥스웰 퍼킨스

104,557 babies were named Maxwell in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 443rd most common name.

Block by block

• 맥 = ㅁ + ㅐ + ㄱ · 7 strokes
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes
  • ㅐ 애 (ae) · 3 strokes
  • ㄱ 기역 (g / k) · 1 stroke

  Also in 맥: Mackenzie 맥켄지 · Max 맥스

• 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅡ 으 (eu) · 1 stroke

  Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · James 제임스

• 웰 = ㅇ + ㅞ + ㄹ · 9 strokes
  • ㅇ 이응 (silent / ng) · 1 stroke
  • ㅞ 웨 (we) · 5 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

맥스웰 takes 19 strokes in all.

More names: Oscar 오스카 · Jacqueline 재클린 · Skylar 스카일라 · Isabel 이사벨 · Jorge 호르헤

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