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Anything relevant to living or working in Japan such as lifestyle, food, style, environment, education, technology, housing, work, immigration, sport etc. MembersOnline. •. badatchopsticks. ADMIN MOD. Names that work in both Japanese and English. My wife and I are having a child soon, and we're looking for names that work reasonably well in ...
Kokichi, Yusuke, Shoji / Shohei. Takumi. Kenji. Izumi (we definitely need more “girl name” options..) General themes are: three consonant/characters (in hiragana, to match our own) and Relatively easy to read for an English speaker (we’ve avoided ‘tsu’ and ‘r/l’ consonants). We are not looking for “English” names that also ...
By the way, Japanese names are further complicated by how each kanji can adopt tons of pronunciations different from their usual ones. Example: Hiromi Arakawa's name is 荒 (ara)川 (kawa) 弘 (hiro)美 (mi). 弘 on its own can be pronounced 'kou' or 'gu'. It means vast, or broad. 美 on its own can be pronounced 'bi'.
莉子 (Riko) is a top ten name, but the character 莉 makes the name more modern-looking since that character only became popular with girls in the last 10-20 years. In the past, 理子 or 里子 would've been more common kanjis for Riko. Japanese names have become more unique and harder to read these days.
Maybe trends for names are different among Japanese Americans, I don't know, but hopefully it can be helpful. For example the most popular boys names 10-1 of 2023 by kanji (* indicates multiple readings) were 湊斗 Minato / 湊 Minato* / 凪 Nagisa* / 蓮 Ren / 颯真 Souma* / 蒼 Aoi* / 律 Ritsu / 暖 Haruto* / 陽翔 Haruto* / 碧 Aoi*.
In my experience, Nagisa and Ruka are “girl names” here. Nao is a boy’s name, Noa is a girl’s name. Aoi and Makoto I’ve heard used for both, but Makoto leans masculine. Reply reply More replies. ksuhb. •. I always thought that Izumi was a pretty gender neutral name. Reply reply.
Even native Japanese people have a hard time reading names, especially if they use non-standard readings or unusual combinations. Japanese name trends tend to move on quickly (especially for girls). I was born in the late 90s and my name used to be in the top ten names for girls in Japan, but stopped appearing in the top 100 names for a while now.
Here are some names Japanese people actually use: Kai or Kaito 海 海斗 Ocean (male name) Izumi 泉 Spring, Fountain. Shizuku 雫 (water) droplet (usually female name) Nagi / Nagisa 凪 Calm sea, lull at sea (Usually female) Shiori 汐璃 First character means tide (female name) Etc.
Japanese Names I've noticed that the names that Japanese people used in the 1600s are quite different to the modern names in use. For example, although Elizabeth is a popular name both now and in 1600s Britain, in Japan, names like Nobunaga and Mitsuhide are completely different from modern names like Natsume and Takeru.
Some of my favorite names: Akane, Ayumi, Azusa, Honoka, Kaede, Kaho, Karin, Midori, Nanami, Natsuka, Niina, Reina. None of these are particularly trendy at the moment (except maybe Kaho and Midori) and depending on which pronunciation peeves you have, they might not work well in English. 12.