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Gender Feminine & Masculine
Usage Japanese (Rare)
Scripts 桂, 葛(Japanese Kanji) かつら(Japanese Hiragana) カツラ(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
This name is used as 桂 (kei, katsura) meaning "Japanese Judas-tree" (unisex) or 葛 (kachi, katsu, kuzu, tsudzura, katsura) meaning "arrowroot, kudzu" (feminine).
桂 originally came about from a compound of 香 (ka) meaning "(good) smell, fragrance, scent," 出 (zu), a contraction of now obsolete 出ず (izu) meaning "to go out" (出る/deru in modern Japanese), and ら, which is a nominalising and pluralising suffix, reflecting the good smell of the wood.Katsura is also used as a surname.This name is rarely given to children, if given at all.
桂 originally came about from a compound of 香 (ka) meaning "(good) smell, fragrance, scent," 出 (zu), a contraction of now obsolete 出ず (izu) meaning "to go out" (出る/deru in modern Japanese), and ら, which is a nominalising and pluralising suffix, reflecting the good smell of the wood.Katsura is also used as a surname.This name is rarely given to children, if given at all.