Ryan in Korean
Ryan
라이언
raieon
Makes a square card you can post. Drawn in your browser — nothing uploaded.
One block at a time
Korean packs each syllable into a square block, so 라이언 is 3 blocks — not a row of letters.
라
ra
이
i
언
eon
Why Korean spells it 라이언
Korean writes foreign names by sound, not letter by letter. There is no silent letter and no way to write a consonant with nothing after it, so an English name usually gains or loses a beat on the way in — that is why Ryan becomes 3 blocks.
This spelling is the conventional one — the form a Korean would write on a delivery slip or a name tag without thinking about it. There are other ways to approximate the same sounds, and you will occasionally see them, but this is the one that reads as normal rather than as a foreigner spelling their own name phonetically.
If it is going on your skin, check it with a Korean speaker first. You can ask here — a person in Seoul answers, not a machine.
Where 라이언 goes in real life
Korean names run surname first, given name second, with no space between them — 김민준 is the Kim family’s Min-jun, not a first name called Kim. Yours is a foreign name, so it keeps its own order and stays as it sounds: 라이언 is simply Ryan.
Korean surnames are one block and given names are usually two, so most Korean names are three blocks long. 라이언 is 3 — exactly the length a Korean name runs.
To address you politely, a Korean adds 씨 (-ssi) after the name: 라이언씨. Note that this goes after a given name or a full name — attaching it to someone’s surname alone (김 씨) sounds distant or slightly down-the-nose, which is a common thing to get wrong in the other direction.
Where length starts to matter is cafés. Starbucks Korea will call your name out instead of a number if you register a nickname in the app, but the nickname has to be a Korean noun of six characters or fewer, and 라이언 fits. Everywhere else you are handed a buzzer and none of this comes up.
Write it yourself
라이언 takes about thirty seconds to learn to type — and the fastest way to stop forgetting it is to type it once yourself. Nothing to install.