Where the spelling 웨슬리 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 웨슬리 for Wesley.
People in the list with this given name:
- 클라크, 웨슬리 — Clark, Wesley
- 피터스, 윌리엄 웨슬리 — Peters, William Wesley
Sound by sound
We웨s슬ley리
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Wesley means
Wesley by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 224, 81,509 babies (2% girls, 98% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 웨슬리: 2.
Korean names for Wesley
These are the converter’s results for Wesley 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.
박예성Park YeseongBoy’s name · 59% sound match
박예준Park YejunBoy’s name · 56% sound match
박이준Park IjunBoy’s name · 50% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 박, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Meaning
Korean names from what Wesley means.
Your name means: west + wood, clearing (from Old English west)
박서원Park SeowonUsed for boys and girls
박서진Park SeojinBoy’s name
박서준Park SeojunBoy’s name
박웨슬리Park WeseulliYour 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