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Name Ichigo
Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Japanese (Modern), Popular Culture
Scripts 一吾, 一悟, 一護, 一期, 一五, 苺 (kanji), いちご (hiragana), イチゴ (katakana)
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Meaning & History
As a masculine name, this name combines 一 (ichi, itsu, hito-, hito.tsu) meaning "one" with 吾 (go, a-, waga-, ware) meaning "I, my, one's own," 悟 (go, sato.ru) meaning "perceive, realise, understand," 護 (go, mamo.ru) meaning "safeguard, protect," 期 (ki, go) meaning "date, period, term, time" or 五 (go, itsu, itsu.tsu) meaning "five."
As a rare feminine name, it's used as 苺 (bai, mai, ichigo) meaning "strawberry."Regarding the word for "strawberry," it may come from either iwochiko (いをちこ), stemming from 魚 (iwo, Heian-period alternation of modern uo) meaning "fish," 血 (chi) meaning "blood" and 子 (ko) meaning "child," from the way the wild strawberry looks like a child with the blood of the fish, or ichibiko (いちびこ), likely stemming from a combination of prefix い (i), 血 (chi), used to denote the similarity between the colours of the wild strawberry and blood, and 彦 (hiko) meaning "boy," in this case, an honorary title for male chiefs and aristocrats in the old days, similar to the addition of 'Prince.'Fictional bearers (all of them in manga & anime) of this name include Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護 - male) from Bleach, Ichigo Momomiya (桃宮 いちご - female) from Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo Morino (森野 苺 - female) from Please Teacher! and Ichigo Hoshimiya (星宮 いちご - female) from Aikatsu!
As a rare feminine name, it's used as 苺 (bai, mai, ichigo) meaning "strawberry."Regarding the word for "strawberry," it may come from either iwochiko (いをちこ), stemming from 魚 (iwo, Heian-period alternation of modern uo) meaning "fish," 血 (chi) meaning "blood" and 子 (ko) meaning "child," from the way the wild strawberry looks like a child with the blood of the fish, or ichibiko (いちびこ), likely stemming from a combination of prefix い (i), 血 (chi), used to denote the similarity between the colours of the wild strawberry and blood, and 彦 (hiko) meaning "boy," in this case, an honorary title for male chiefs and aristocrats in the old days, similar to the addition of 'Prince.'Fictional bearers (all of them in manga & anime) of this name include Ichigo Kurosaki (黒崎 一護 - male) from Bleach, Ichigo Momomiya (桃宮 いちご - female) from Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo Morino (森野 苺 - female) from Please Teacher! and Ichigo Hoshimiya (星宮 いちご - female) from Aikatsu!