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Name Motome
Gender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 求, 求馬, 求女, 元女, 素女, 茂登女 (kanji), もとめ (hiragana), モトメ (katakana)
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Meaning & History
As a masculine name, it can be used as 求, 求馬 or 求女 with 求 (kyuu, gu, moto.meru) meaning "demand, request, require, want, wish for," 馬 (ba, uma, -uma, ma, me) meaning "horse" and 女 (jo, nyo, nyou, onna, me) meaning "female, woman."
As a feminine name, it can be used as 元女, 素女 or 茂登女 with 元 (gan, gen, moto, chika) meaning "beginning, origin, source" and 素 (su, so, moto) meaning "origin, source," 茂 (mo, shige.ru) meaning "be luxuriant, grow thick" and 登 (shou, chou, to, tou, dou, a.garu, nobo.ru) meaning "ascend, climb up."Regarding 求馬, it belongs as an 'azuma hyakkan' (東百官) name, in which they are like hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority, but come from the names of government offices in the Kantō region.One fictional bearer of this name is Motome Chijiiwa (千々岩 求女), one of the characters in the 1962 film, Harakiri or Seppuku (切腹) as it was known in Japan.Motome is also used as a surname.
As a feminine name, it can be used as 元女, 素女 or 茂登女 with 元 (gan, gen, moto, chika) meaning "beginning, origin, source" and 素 (su, so, moto) meaning "origin, source," 茂 (mo, shige.ru) meaning "be luxuriant, grow thick" and 登 (shou, chou, to, tou, dou, a.garu, nobo.ru) meaning "ascend, climb up."Regarding 求馬, it belongs as an 'azuma hyakkan' (東百官) name, in which they are like hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority, but come from the names of government offices in the Kantō region.One fictional bearer of this name is Motome Chijiiwa (千々岩 求女), one of the characters in the 1962 film, Harakiri or Seppuku (切腹) as it was known in Japan.Motome is also used as a surname.