How to write “Nicholas or Nicolas” in Korean
니콜라스 ni-kol-la-seu
What Korean friends call you
- 니콜라스야 ni-kol-la-seu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 니콜라스 씨 ni-kol-la-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 Nicholas
The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 니컬러스; most Koreans write 니콜라스.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Nicholas Hoult 니콜라스 (sometimes 니컬러스); Nicholas Sparks 니콜라스 (sometimes 니컬러스); Nicholas Braun 니콜라스 (sometimes 니컬러스).
Well-known people named Nicholas or Nicolas, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Nicolas Cage — 니콜라스 케이지
- Nicolas Lombaerts — 니콜라스 롬바르츠
- Nicholas Latifi — 니콜라스 라티피
- Nicholas Liverpool — 니콜라스 리버풀
854,372 babies were named Nicholas in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 28th most common name.
Block by block
- 니 = ㄴ + ㅣ · 2 strokes
Also in 니: Daniel 다니엘 · Anthony 앤서니 · Sydney 시드니
- 콜 = ㅋ + ㅗ + ㄹ · 7 strokes
- 라 = ㄹ + ㅏ · 5 strokes
Also in 라: Ryan 라이언 · Isabella 이저벨라 · Sarah 사라
- 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · James 제임스 · Alexis 알렉시스
니콜라스 takes 17 strokes in all.
More names: Ryan 라이언 · James 제임스 · Tyler 타일러 · Emma 엠마 · Ethan 에단
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