How to write “Samuel” in Korean

사무엘 sa-mu-el Listen to 사무엘, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

What Korean friends call you

• 사무엘아 sa-mu-e-ra — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 사무엘 씨 sa-mu-el-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 Samuel

• 사무엘 18 (78%)
• 사뮈엘 5 (22%)

Korean labels of 23 people named Samuel on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

The official loanword spelling (외래어 표기법) is 새뮤얼; most Koreans write 사무엘.

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Samuel L. Jackson 사무엘 (sometimes 새뮤얼); Samuel Beckett 사무엘 (sometimes 새뮤얼); Samuel Alito 새뮤얼 (sometimes 사무엘).

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

• Samuel de Champlain — 사무엘 드 샹플랭
• Samuel Hahnemann — 사무엘 하네만
• Samuel von Pufendorf — 사무엘 폰 푸펜도르프
• Samuel Kuffour — 사무엘 쿠포르

590,415 babies were named Samuel in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 53rd most common name.

Block by block

• 사 = ㅅ + ㅏ · 4 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅏ 아 (a) · 2 strokes

  Also in 사: Samantha 사만다 · Sarah 사라 · Alyssa 얼리사

• 무 = ㅁ + ㅜ · 5 strokes
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes
  • ㅜ 우 (u) · 2 strokes
• 엘 = ㅇ + ㅔ + ㄹ · 7 strokes
  • ㅇ 이응 (silent / ng) · 1 stroke
  • ㅔ 에 (e) · 3 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 엘: Daniel 다니엘 · Elizabeth 엘리자베스 · Gabriel 가브리엘

사무엘 takes 16 strokes in all.

More names: Logan 로건 · Elizabeth 엘리자베스 · Ashley 애슐리 · Taylor 테일러 · Sophia 소피아

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