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Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Scripts 炎, 秀邑(Japanese Kanji) ほむら(Japanese Hiragana) ホムラ(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
This name can used as 炎 (en, honoo) meaning "blaze, flame" or 秀邑 with 秀 (shuu, hii.deru, ho) meaning "beauty, excel(lence), surpass" and 邑 (yuu, ure.eru, kuni, mura) meaning "village, hamlet."As a word, Homura (炎) refers to a blaze or a flame.Two fictional bearers of this name are Homura Akemi (暁美 ほむら), the antihero in the anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Homura Akai (赤井 ほむら) from dating sim Tokimeki Memorial 2.Homura is very rarely given to girls, if given at all.Homura is also used as a surname.