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Re: a question about the name shun
by ClaudiaS
12/30/2008, 6:56 AM
in reply to a message by gunblade007
Just as in the U.S., many names in Japan can be unisex. A girl named Shun doesn't sound out of the realm of possibility, but it's definitely mainly a male name.
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- gunblade007   +9
12/31/2008, 12:06 AM
thanks clauidaSthanks claudiaS,
i went to a local book store and try to look the name shun in baby names. i couldn't find it. since i was kind of a hurry. but i did find shion which says it's a girls name. but on wikepdia it says it's a unisex name. but there is both male and female fictional characters with that name. but i don't know any female fictional characters with the name shun. that's why i was wounding. i hated to ask this again but is shun a popular name in japan? because i think the girl i met at hibachi master just said her name was a popular japanese name. nothing about it being a popular girls name.
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- ClaudiaS   +8
12/31/2008, 8:47 AM
Yes, Shun is a comparatively popular boy's name. I saw it at #33 on one list for 2007 and #46 on another.
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- gunblade007   +7
1/1/2009, 2:22 PM
cool clauidaScool clauidaS,
what web site did you find this. i like to find more popular japanese names that can be unisex names.
-Joe:)
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- ClaudiaS   +6
1/1/2009, 4:17 PM
The two websites I've found are in Japanese only. Links are: http://www.meijiyasuda.co.jp/profile/etc/ranking/
http://women.benesse.ne.jp/event/hakase/rank2007/index.htmlI looked over the newly posted 2008 top 100 list for names which appear for both boys and girls and found these: Sora (#5 for boys, #55 for girls)
Hinata (#20 boys, #22 girls)
Yuu (#21 boys, #56 girls)
Aoi (#42 boys, #3 girls)
Shion (#56 boys, #97 girls)
Mizuki (#70 boys, #56 girls)

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- gunblade007
1/2/2009, 12:05 AM
well clauidaSwell clauidaS
do you know any web sites in english? shion is also in my list too with shun and shiori
-Joe:)
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- gunblade007   +4
1/2/2009, 12:05 AM
well clauidaSwell clauidaS
do you know any web sites in english? shion is also in my list too with shun and shiori
-Joe:0
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- ClaudiaS   +3
1/2/2009, 6:58 AM
No, I don't know any English sites that have this kind of current information about popular Japanese names. Sorry!
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- gunblade007   +2
1/2/2009, 2:44 PM
well can you read japanese on those sites? or do you use a translation? and if so what's a good translation web site? or if you can read japanese could you maybe e-mail me all the popular japanese names on that page on those two web sites?
-Joe:)
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- ClaudiaS   +1
1/2/2009, 4:42 PM
I can read Japanese, so I haven't used an online translator. If you send me your e-mail I'd be happy to type you out a list of the most popular names from 2008 (the list goes to 100).

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- gunblade007
1/3/2009, 6:05 PM
ok thanks clauidaSok thanks clauidaS
i got a free imtranslator but one site i couldn't copy and paste on it and the other i would do it and would gave me the meaning of the name. anyway my e-mail address is gunblade007@yahoo.com just gave me popular japanese names that start with the letter ''S'' instead of gaving all 100 names.
thanks again.
-Joe:)

This message was edited 1/3/2009, 6:09 PM

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