Where the spelling 에스페란사 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 에스페란사 for Esperanza.
Wiktionary records Esperanza as a name from Spanish, so it is read as a name in Spanish.
People in the list with this given name:
- 아기레, 에스페란사 — Aguirre, Esperanza
Sound by sound
e에s스pe페ran란za사
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 Esperanza means
Esperanza by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 1,676, 7,963 babies (99.9% girls, 0.1% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 에스페란사: 1.
Korean names for Esperanza
These are the converter’s results for Esperanza as a girl’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.
김예서Kim YeseoGirl’s name · 61% sound match
김이서Kim IseoGirl’s name · 57% sound match
김예슬Kim YeseulGirl’s name · 57% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Meaning
Korean names from what Esperanza means.
Your name means: 희망 · hope (from Spanish esperanza)
김희망Kim HuimangLiteral translation — fun, not a common Korean name희 希 hope, expect, strive for망 望 to hope, expect
김소망Kim SomangReal Korean name with the same meaning
김희Kim HuiGirl’s name · Meaning: Hope희 希 hope, expect, strive for
김서희Kim SeohuiGirl’s name · Meaning: Hope
김에스페란사Kim EseuperansaYour name, Korean styleHangul-only name — no hanja
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