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Help[Opinions] Re: Japanese Names?
in reply to a message by FictionPrincess31415
What about Kyo for a boy? Or Hatori?
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With regards to Hatori
It's used as a surname 99.999% of the time. Looking at www.namaejiten.com and www.douseidoumei.net, I've found none with the name 'Hatori' on the 1st site. On the 2nd site though, I've found one with 生鳥 (生 being ha, from 'ha.eru' or 'ha.yasu') but the question would be if that person was named Hatori or not.
Other than that, I've only seen this name mentioned as an idea/suggestion (see http://5go.biz/fbo/read/2/5704 - in Japanese).
It's used as a surname 99.999% of the time. Looking at www.namaejiten.com and www.douseidoumei.net, I've found none with the name 'Hatori' on the 1st site. On the 2nd site though, I've found one with 生鳥 (生 being ha, from 'ha.eru' or 'ha.yasu') but the question would be if that person was named Hatori or not.
Other than that, I've only seen this name mentioned as an idea/suggestion (see http://5go.biz/fbo/read/2/5704 - in Japanese).
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I think it's best to look at the names that real Japanese people have. On Wikipedia there's loads of famous Japanese people.
As an anime fan, I can tell you that a lot of the names that appear in anime and manga are names that aren't encountered very often in real life. Some are believable on real people (like Sakura) and some sound flat-out ridiculous on real people (like Usagi).
As an anime fan, I can tell you that a lot of the names that appear in anime and manga are names that aren't encountered very often in real life. Some are believable on real people (like Sakura) and some sound flat-out ridiculous on real people (like Usagi).
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To be honest, Wikipedia has a fraction of names that real Japanese people have compared to douseidoumei.net. After all, douseidoumei.net seems reliable enough as a source for me to use it (the names section contains 428,819 entries, so it's kind of an overview of how popular a name, for all ages, was). You might even encounter kanji combinations that you don't see in a dictionary (or, less often, Wikipedia - English or Japanese).
Anyway, Usagi is not as ridiculous, to me, as, say, Adamu with the kanji 男 that has sounds that are not pronounced like Adamu (I'm not sure if you're aware that that is a DQN name) or Pikachu with the kanji 光宙. And yeah, that's not all. Check out http://dqname.jp/ (in Japanese, but I'm sure you can read it) and you will see the many DQN names that I want to see it disappear.
Anyway, Usagi is not as ridiculous, to me, as, say, Adamu with the kanji 男 that has sounds that are not pronounced like Adamu (I'm not sure if you're aware that that is a DQN name) or Pikachu with the kanji 光宙. And yeah, that's not all. Check out http://dqname.jp/ (in Japanese, but I'm sure you can read it) and you will see the many DQN names that I want to see it disappear.
This message was edited 5/17/2015, 10:57 AM
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I don't speak Japanese (at all lol) and the other link you send me was unavailable. Thanks for your suggestions anyway.
Yuna is definitely being used. Sero & Yuna. Unsure about giving her another sibling or what gender they should be.
Daichi sounds pretty cool though (:
Hatori, from my expirence upon searching japanese names, they don't pronounce the R? So I'm trying to advoid most if not all jap names containing that letter. I'll keep mispronouncing Hatori. Its not a name I care for anyway-at least not with these characters. Just doesn't stand out to me
Yuna is definitely being used. Sero & Yuna. Unsure about giving her another sibling or what gender they should be.
Daichi sounds pretty cool though (:
Hatori, from my expirence upon searching japanese names, they don't pronounce the R? So I'm trying to advoid most if not all jap names containing that letter. I'll keep mispronouncing Hatori. Its not a name I care for anyway-at least not with these characters. Just doesn't stand out to me
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Kyo was originally on the list but I eliminated it. I thought it was pronounced as ky-O which sounds really cool. Apparetly, its More like kee-O which I rather don't care for. And since Sero's name ends in an O, I figured for her sibling names to have an alternative ending
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