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HelpRe: What are your favorite Japanese names?
in reply to a message by Lily
I've long liked Akira (....for a girl. I'm ashamed). I also really liked the names Chiko and Shio, two exchange students we had (girls). Shio told me her name means "salt", which I always thought was neat.
I also like:
Boys
Yemon "guarding the gate"
Zinan "second son"
Tobikuma "flying cloud"
Kenji "second son" (I love this one, it's so cute in a retro way)
Girls
Aoi "hollyhock"
Ayame "iris"
Choyo "a generation of dawns"
Kiyo "happy generations"
Machi "ten thousand thousand"
Miyuki "silence of deep snow"
Suzu "bell"
Tooka "tenth day"
Utako "child of the song"
Apparently these names are all "very old fashioned", according to a Japanese friend.
She once gave me a list of more modern nature-based names used in Japan but I lost it, like the fool I am. They meant things like "a sunny place" and "mallow", stuff like that.
I think I might be a bit confused or taken aback by a very non-Japanese child with a super Japanese name, but I'd assume there was some story behind it and immediately set about finding out said story :)
I also like:
Boys
Yemon "guarding the gate"
Zinan "second son"
Tobikuma "flying cloud"
Kenji "second son" (I love this one, it's so cute in a retro way)
Girls
Aoi "hollyhock"
Ayame "iris"
Choyo "a generation of dawns"
Kiyo "happy generations"
Machi "ten thousand thousand"
Miyuki "silence of deep snow"
Suzu "bell"
Tooka "tenth day"
Utako "child of the song"
Apparently these names are all "very old fashioned", according to a Japanese friend.
She once gave me a list of more modern nature-based names used in Japan but I lost it, like the fool I am. They meant things like "a sunny place" and "mallow", stuff like that.
I think I might be a bit confused or taken aback by a very non-Japanese child with a super Japanese name, but I'd assume there was some story behind it and immediately set about finding out said story :)
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