natalie.shine's Personal Name List
Akamatsu
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 赤松(Japanese Kanji) あかまつ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: A-KA-MA-TSOO
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
赤 (aka) meaning "red" and
松 (matsu) meaning "pine tree, fir tree".
Amami
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 天美, 天海, 天実(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
amami is a surname which can mean heavenly beauty, heavenly truth, or heavenly ocean. the first meaning is made up of the kanji 天 (ama) meaning heaven and 美 (mi) meaning beauty. the second meaning consists of 天 (ama) and 実 (mi) meaning truth. the final meaning consists of 天(ama) and 海 (umi, mi) meaning ocean.
Ando
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 安藤(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: AN-DOH
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From the Japanese 安 (
an or
yasu) "relax," "inexpensive," "low," and 藤 (
to or
fuji) "wisteria." The second character may indicate historical or familial links to the formerly powerful
Fujiwara (藤原) clan.
Asahina
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 朝比奈, 朝日奈(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: A-SA-KHEE-NA
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 朝
(asa) meaning "morning", 比
(hi) meaning "comparison, match, equal" or 日
(hi) meaning "sun, day", and 奈
(na), a phonetic character.
Chabashira
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 茶柱(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: CHA-BA-SHEE-RA
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From 茶 (cha) literally meaning "green tea" and 柱 (hashira) meaning "pillar". A tea pillar is considered good luck in Japanese culture.
Daimon
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 大門(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: DA-EE-MON
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 大
(dai) meaning "big, great" and 門
(mon) meaning "gate, door".
Fujisaki
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 藤崎(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: FOO-ZHEE-SA-KYEE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 藤
(fuji) meaning "wisteria" and 崎
(saki) meaning "peninsula, cape".
Hagakure
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 葉隠(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 葉 (ha) meaning "leaf" and 隠 (gakure) meaning "to disappear"
Hanamura
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 花村(Japanese Kanji) はなむら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: HA-NA-MOO-RA
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 花
(hana) meaning "flower" and 村
(mura) meaning "town, village".
Harukawa
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 春河, 春川(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
harukawa means "spring river". the kanji used are 春(haru) meaning "spring (the season)" and 河 (kawa) meaning "river" . you could also use 川 (kawa) as the second kanji, but using 河 looks better.
Hinata
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 日向, 陽向(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 日向 (hinata) meaning "sunny place", 陽向 (hinata) meaning "toward the sun", or a non-standard reading of 向日葵 (himawari) meaning "sunflower". Other kanji compounds are also possible.
Hoshi
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 星(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: HO-SHEE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese 星 (hoshi) meaning "star".
Kimura
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 木村(Japanese Kanji) きむら(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KYEE-MOO-RA
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
木 (ki) meaning "tree, wood" and
村 (mura) meaning "town, village".
Kirigiri
Usage: Popular Culture
Other Scripts: 霧切(Japanese Kanji) きりぎり(Japanese Hiragana) キリギリ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KEE-ṘEE-GEE-ṘEE(Japanese)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
This surname is used as 霧切 with 霧 (bu, bou, mu, kiri) meaning "fog, mist" and 切 (sai, setsu, ki.ri, -ki.ri, ki.ru, -ki.ru, ki.re, -ki.re, ki.reru, -ki.reru, -gi.ri, -gi.re) meaning "be sharp, cut(off)."
One bearer of this name is Kyōko Kirigiri (霧切 響子) from the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
This surname is not given in Japan.
Koizumi
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 小泉(Japanese Kanji) こいずみ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: KO-EE-ZOO-MEE
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From Japanese
小 (ko) meaning "small" and
泉 (izumi) meaning "spring, fountain". A notable bearer of this name is Junichiro Koizumi (1942-), who was Prime Minister of Japan.
Komaeda
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 小前田, 古前田(Japanese Kanji) こまえだ(Japanese Hiragana) コマエダ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: KO-MA-EH-DA
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
From 小
(ko) meaning "small, little" or 古
(ko) meaning "old" combined with
Maeda.
This surname is rarely used.
Ludenberg
Usage: German
Pronounced: LOO-DEN-BURG
Rating: 5% based on 2 votes
From Latin ludere meaning "to play" and German berg meaning "mountain".
Maizono
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 舞園(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
maizono means "dance park". the kanji used are 舞(mai) meaning "dance" and 園 (sono) meaning "park".
a bearer of this name is Sayaka Maizono from Danganronpa 1.
Mioda
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 澪田(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
mioda means "water route field". the kanji used for this name are 澪(mio,rei) meaning " water route" and 田(ta) meaning "field". a bearer of this name is Ibuki Mioda from Danganronpa 2.
Momota
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 百田(Japanese Kanji)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
momota means "a hundred rice fields". the kanji used are 百(momo) meaning " hundred" and 田(ta) meaning "rice field".
Naegi
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Other Scripts: 苗木(Japanese Kanji) なえぎ(Japanese Hiragana) ナエギ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: NAH-E-GEE
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
This surname is used as 苗木 with 苗 (byou, myou, nae, nawa-) meaning "sapling, seedling, shoot" and 木 (boku, moku, ki, ko-) meaning "tree, wood."
As a word, naegi refers to a seedling, sapling or young tree.
One bearer of this name is Makoto Naegi (苗木 誠) from the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
Nanami
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 七海(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: NAH-NAH-MEE
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 七海 (nanami) meaning "seven seas".
Ogami
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 拝, 小上, 小神, 尾上, 尾神, 男神(Japanese Kanji) おがみ(Japanese Hiragana) オガミ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced: O-GAH-MEE
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
This surname is used as 拝, 小上, 小神, 尾上, 尾神, 男神 with 拝 (hai, oga.mu, oroga.mu) meaning "adore, pray to, worship," 小 (shou, o-, ko-, sa-, chii.sai) meaning "little, small," 尾 (bi, o) meaning "end, tail," 男 (dan, nan, o, otoko) meaning "male," 上 (shan, shou, jou, a.gari, a.garu, a.geru, ue, -ue, uwa-, kami, nobo.su, nobo.seru, nobo.ri, nobo.ru, yo.su) meaning "above, up" and 神 (shin, jin, kami, kan-, kou-) meaning "gods, mind, soul."
Ouma
Usage: Japanese (Modern)
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
Owari
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 終里(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: O-WA-REE
Rating: 10% based on 1 vote
From Japanese 終 (owa) meaning “last, to finish” and 里 (ri) meaning “village, the home of one’s parents, hometown”. The latter character is also an archaic Japanese unit of area.
Saihara
Prime field, Conspicuous wilderness
Saihara is the surname for Shuichi Saihara, a character in New Danganronpa V3.
Saionji
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 西園寺(Japanese Kanji)
Japanese surname derived from the kanji for "west", "park, garden" and "Buddhist temple".
Shirogane
Usage: Japanese (Rare)
Pronounced: Shi-ro-ga-ne
Shirogane typically spelt "白銀"
"白" is white. "銀" is silver. Although put together it can mean something similar to platinum or silver.
Tanaka
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 田中(Japanese Kanji) たなか(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: TA-NA-KA
Means
"dweller in the rice fields", from Japanese
田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy" and
中 (naka) meaning "middle".
Togami
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 十神(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: TO-GAH-MEE
From Japanese 十神 (togami) meaning "ten gods".
Tojo
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 東條, 東条(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: TO-JO
Variant transcription of
Toujou.
Yamada
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 山田(Japanese Kanji) やまだ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: YA-MA-DA
From Japanese
山 (yama) meaning "mountain" and
田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Yasuhiro
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 安央, 安拡, 安寛, 安啓, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: YAH-SOO-HEE-ṘO
From Japanese 安 (yasu) meaning "peace, quiet" combined with 央 (hiro) meaning "centre, middle". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Famous bearers are Yasuhiro Kobayashi, a Japanese musician, accordionist, composer and arranger, Yasuhiro Nightow, a Japanese manga artist, Yasuhiro Yoshiura, a Japanese writer and director of animated short films, Yasuhiro Matsuda, a Japanese professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo, Yasuhiro Fueki, a Japanese track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles, Yasuhiro Nakasone, a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 27 November 1982 to 6 November 1987, Yasuhiro Kido, a Japanese welterweight kickboxer competing in K-1 MAX, Yasuhiro Morinaga, a sound designer, music director and independent filmmaker, based in Tokyo, Yasuhiro Sato, a Japanese baseball player and Yasuhiro Kato, a Japanese football player.
Yonaga
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 夜長(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: YO-NAH-GAH
From Japanese 夜長 (yonaga) meaning "a long night".
Yukizome
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 雪染(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced: YOO-KEE-ZO-ME
From Japanese 雪染 (yukizome) meaning "snow prints, dyed snow".
Yumeno
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 夢野(Japanese Kanji)
yumeno means "dream field" the kanji used for this name are 夢 (yume) meaning " dream" and 野 (no) meaning "field".
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