How to write “Sam” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 샘아 sae-ma — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 샘 씨 saem-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 Sam

• 샘 175 (100%)

Korean labels of 175 people named Sam on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

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

• Sam Altman — 샘 올트먼
• Sam Worthington — 샘 워딩턴
• Sam Nujoma — 샘 누조마
• Sam Peckinpah — 샘 페킨파

36,561 babies were named Sam in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 1021st most common name.

Block by block

• 샘 = ㅅ + ㅐ + ㅁ · 8 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅐ 애 (ae) · 3 strokes
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes

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