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They are a supplementary list of characters that can legally be used in registered personal names in Japan, despite not being in the official list of "commonly used characters" (jōyō kanji). " Jinmeiyō kanji" is sometimes used to refer to the characters in both the jinmeiyō and jōyō lists because some Japanese names do not require the ...
Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,418 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [ 2 ]
There are also an abundance of choices for name ideas with rich meanings behind them. One Japanese boy name — Kai — has been in the top 100 baby boy names for the last five years, according to ...
Male names occasionally end with the syllable -ko as in Mako, but very rarely using the kanji 子 (most often, if a male name ends in -ko, it ends in -hiko, using the kanji 彦 meaning "boy"). Common male name endings are -shi and -o; names ending with -shi are often adjectives, e.g., Atsushi, which might mean, for example, "(to be) faithful."
Pages in category "Japanese given names" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Coby; F. Fuju; K.
Pages in category "Japanese unisex given names" The following 169 pages are in this category, out of 169 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aguri;
Her name means "Shines from Heaven" or "the great kami who shine Heaven". For many reasons, one among them being her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not officially) to be the "primary god" of Shinto. [1] [2] Ame-no-Uzume (天宇受売命 or 天鈿女命) Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry ...