Where the spelling 에프라인 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 에프라인 for Efrain.
Wiktionary records Efrain as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.
People in the list with this given name:
- 리오스 몬트, 에프라인 — Ríos Montt, Efraín
- 알레그레 (사시아인), (페드로) 에프라인 — Alegre (Sasiain), (Pedro) Efraín
Sound by sound
e에f프ra라in인
Why it is spelled this way
- This looks like a name in Spanish, so the official Spanish spelling is shown first.
- Matches the National Institute of Korean Language usage list.
What Efrain means
Efrain by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 1,938, 6,414 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 에프라인: 2.
Korean names for Efrain
These are the converter’s results for Efrain 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.
박라온Park RaonUsed for boys and girls · 53% sound matchNative Korean word (no hanja)
박로이Park RoiBoy’s name · 50% sound match
박예준Park YejunBoy’s name · 45% 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