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I don't think this is really relevant to the question. the names given are examples which may be considered hypothectical and not necessarily;y accurate in the details. Further i think it is misleading to assume the Kanji symbols used are a names "meaning". Ideographic systems such as Kanji present a number of different options for rendering something as personal as a name (and sometimes more regular words as well). The majority of forms will be fairly standard e.g. a name such as Subaru (the Pleiades) will have a standard set of Kanji which will e commonly used and which everyone will understand and be prone to use in a name. But a word/name may be rendered in other ways - using a combination of homophones that read separately mean something completely different; by the use of more or less obscure kennings that neither sound or mean the same as the name/word (in the case of words these need to be standardized or not too obscure, but personal names can be incredibly obscure in their use of such "riddles"); in the case of Kanji, they may be chosen based on the original Chinese pronunciation of the symbol, not the Japanese, and appear to mean something different again if read according to a normal Japanese interpretation. Do these alternate renderings change the meaning of a name? Not really.

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None of which answers why some men will have seemingly female names. I don't know why it happens (although there are several possible mechanisms), or how common it is, but it does happen, and will cause raised eyebrows even in Japan. Adults will normally be polite, but kids can be cruel.

This message was edited 2/11/2022, 7:37 AM