Where the spelling 서배스천 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 서배스천 for Sebastian.
People in the list with this given name:
- 스탠, 서배스천 — Stan, Sebastian
- 스런, 서배스천 — Thrun, Sebastian
- 고카, 서배스천 (루카치) — Gorka, Sebastian (Lukács)
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
세바스티안Sebaseutian · NIKL spelling of the Spanish name
What Sebastian means
Sebastian by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 72, 194,334 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 서배스천: 3.
Korean names for Sebastian
These are the converter’s results for Sebastian 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.
김서빈Kim SeobinUsed for boys and girls · 65% sound match
김선우Kim SeonuBoy’s name · 49% sound match
김서진Kim SeojinBoy’s name · 49% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, 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