Where the spelling 애슈턴 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 애슈턴 for Ashton.
People in the list with this given name:
- 이턴, 애슈턴 — Eaton, Ashton
- 카터, 애슈턴 — Carter, Ashton
Sound by sound
A애sh슈ton턴
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Ashton means
“ash (tree species) + enclosure, settlement”
From Old English æsc
Source: Wiktionary — Ashton · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ashton by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 216, 84,010 babies (9% girls, 91% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 애슈턴: 2.
Korean names for Ashton
These are the converter’s results for Ashton as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
박이수Park IsuUsed for boys and girls · 70% sound match
이예준Lee YejunBoy’s name · 57% sound match
박이준Park IjunBoy’s name · 53% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics