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Currency Code to Name Converter

Type a currency code or name and choose the lookup direction.

How it is calculated

This is a table lookup, not a calculation. In Code to Name mode the tool trims your text, upper-cases it and looks it up among the three-letter currency codes in its table, so try, Try and TRY all work. In Name to Code mode it compares your text, ignoring case and extra spaces, with the full English names in the table (US Dollar, Pound Sterling), and the whole name must match. On a non-English page the name is shown in that page's language, and the local-language name is accepted as well as the English one.

Anything not in the table gives no result: a partial name such as lira, a numeric code such as 840, or a code ISO does not list. The table holds every current ISO 4217 currency, 157 codes in all with a few extras. Metals and funds such as XAU are left out. Former and informal entries need care: NIS is an informal alias for the shekel (the official code is ILS, which Name to Code returns), and HRK and BGN are the former Croatian kuna and Bulgarian lev, both replaced by the euro.

Worked example

You see TRY on an invoice and want to know the currency. Enter TRY with the direction on Code to Name. The tool upper-cases the text, finds TRY in its table and returns Turkish Lira, with TRY as the matched code. For the reverse, choose Name to Code and type Turkish Lira, and the tool returns TRY. Typing just lira returns nothing, because the full listed name is required.

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Common mistakes

  • Typing a partial name such as lira, dollar or franc in Name to Code. Only the whole name matches, for example Swiss Franc.
  • Entering the numeric ISO code (840) in Code to Name. Only three-letter codes are known.
  • Leaving the direction on Code to Name while typing a name, or the reverse. Both return no result.
  • Using NIS for the Israeli shekel in a payment system. The official ISO code is ILS.
  • Expecting XAU or XDR. Gold, other metals and fund codes in ISO 4217 are not currencies of a country and are not in the table.

About this calculator

ISO 4217 is the international standard that assigns every world currency a 3-letter code and a 3-digit numeric code — USD (840) for the US Dollar, EUR (978) for the Euro, JPY (392) for the Japanese Yen. The standard is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization together with SIX Interbank Clearing, the Swiss body that publishes and updates the official currency list.

These codes are the backbone of global finance: banks use them in SWIFT wire instructions, forex platforms quote pairs like EUR/USD with them, and accounting and invoicing software relies on them to avoid ambiguity between currencies that share a symbol (like the many dollars and pesos). This tool looks up the full English name behind a 3-letter code, or the code behind an exact name, for every current ISO 4217 currency, 157 codes with a few extras. It does not look up numeric codes. The list includes NIS, a common informal code for the Israeli shekel (the official ISO code is ILS), and HRK, the Croatian kuna, which the euro replaced in 2023.

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  • Editorial team

    Old invoices and exports carry codes that no longer circulate, and this lookup does not flag them. HRK still returns Croatian Kuna, even though Croatia moved to the euro in 2023, and NIS returns Israeli New Shekel although the standard code for it is ILS. XAU, a precious metal code, returns nothing. So treat a successful match as proof of the spelling, not as proof the currency is in use today. Which codes show up in your files?

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