Compilation harmonious combination For the Japanese, surnames and given names are a complex science with long traditions. In Japan, there is a special set of names consisting of more than two thousand hieroglyphs. Until now, parents turn to specialists - compilers of Japanese names. Usually the names of boys and girls living in the same village are never repeated.

In Japan there is no concept of "namesake". The Japanese did not even have the concept of “ fashionable names", with the exception of "ordinal" male names. This may be due to the fact that the Japanese use their surnames much more often than their personal names.

First Last Name, then First Name

Japanese names consist of two parts: the family name, which is written and pronounced first, and the personal name, which, according to Eastern tradition, comes second. Modern Japanese often write their names in “European order” (personal name and then clan surname) if they write them in Romaji (Latin) or Kiriji (Cyrillic). For convenience, the Japanese sometimes write their surname in capital letters so that it is not confused with their given name.

Europeans, who rarely pay attention to the etymology of their own names, constantly face difficulties associated with reading, translating and transcribing Japanese names and surnames. Modern Japanese can tell you how to read their names, but they do not always dare to translate the nominal characters into foreign languages. The Japanese are creative when it comes to the names of foreigners: Svetlana may not recognize herself in “Suetorana” or Carmen will not immediately respond to the Japanese “Karumen”.

How did the surnames come about?

Until the second half of the 19th century centuries in Japan, only aristocrats (kuge) and samurai (bushi) had surnames. The rest of the Japanese population went by personal names and nicknames. Number aristocratic families in Japan, limited and constant since antiquity. The most notable clans of Japanese aristocrats are the Fujiwara clan, collectively called “Gosetsuke”: Konoe, Takashi, Kujo, Ichijo and Gojo. IN modern Japan There are about one hundred thousand surnames, of which more than seventy thousand appeared only 130 years ago.

During the Meiji era ("Enlightened Reign") from 1868-1911. Emperor Mutsuhito ordered all Japanese peasants, artisans and merchants to choose any surname. Some Japanese, instead of their surname, wrote down the name of the city or village in which they lived, others “for the surname” took the name of the store or workshop in which they worked. Creative people came up with sonorous surnames for themselves.

Most of the surnames of modern Japanese are associated with peasant life, rice growing and processing. For example, the surname Hakamada consists of two characters: “hakama” (the lower part of a traditional Japanese suit, men’s pants or a woman’s skirt) and “da” (“rice field”). Judging by the “peasant” meaning of the hieroglyphs, it can be assumed that Irina Khakamada’s ancestors were field workers.

In Japan, you can meet people with the common surname Ito and exactly the same name Ito (translated as “dandy, dandy, Italy”). But such coincidences are very rare.
The only exception is Emperor Akihito ("Showing Mercy") and his family members. The “symbol of the nation” of Japan never had a surname.

Samurai names

In the 12th century, the first military usurper in the history of Japan was the shogun-samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo, or Yoritomo of the Minamoto clan (translated as “source”), who marked the beginning of the formation of a privileged class of samurai.

Samurai chose their personal names depending on their life circumstances: promotion, relocation due to service, etc. The fall of the last Tokugawa shogunate ("River of Virtue") and the transfer of power to Emperor Mutsuhito consolidated long years exclusive privileges of the military.

Until the 19th century, in addition to complete impunity and the possibility of easy money, samurai had the right to give names to their vassals. The names of samurai servants and peasants were often given “in order”: Ichiro - first son, Jiro - second, Saburo - third, Shiro - fourth, Goro - fifth, etc. In addition to “-ro”, the suffixes “-emon”, “-ji”, “-zo”, “-suke”, “-be” were used.

Modern Japanese male names also carry information about the “serial number” of the son in the family. Still often in personal male names The Japanese use the suffixes "-ichi" and "-kazu" ("first son"), "-ji" ("second son") and "-zō" ("third son").

It is not customary for the emperors of Japan to be called the same and distinguished by serial number, like commoners. According to the old tradition, the names of Japanese emperors are composed with the second character “compassion, mercy, sympathy.” Emperor Mutsuhito's name is a combination of two characters for "friendly, warm" and "compassionate". Emperor Hirohito, who ruled Japan from 1926 to 1989, was raised by samurai, veterans of the Russo-Japanese War.

After the collapse of the empire, the nuclear bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the complete and unconditional surrender of Hirohito (approximately - “Abundant Mercy”), in a state of “deep shock,” showed compassion for own people, appealed to the mercy of the victors and renounced his divine origin.

Since the 19th and 20th centuries, rich and influential samurai have retained the highest positions in civil and military administration. Others became the founders of Japanese entrepreneurship. Part of the creative intelligentsia was formed from the samurai environment. All personal names of aristocrats and high-ranking samurai consisted of two hieroglyphs with a “noble” meaning.

For example, the name of the son of military instructor Kurosawa (“Black Swamp”) Akira (“light”, “clear”) can be roughly translated into Russian as “light in the darkness” or “illumination”. Perhaps only thanks to luck given name, an artist by training, Akira Kurosawa became a director, a classic of Japanese and world cinema, changing our understanding of the world (“swamp”).

Most Japanese girl names end in "-ko" ("child") or "-mi" ("beauty"). Japanese women are often given names associated with everything beautiful, pleasant and feminine, graceful.
Unlike male names, female names are usually written not in “solemn” characters, but simply in hiragana (the Japanese alphabet used to write Chinese and Japanese words).

So, new list names

New generations of educated Japanese parents have long sought to expand the old list of nominal characters in order to create completely new, interesting and original names to my children. In September 2004, the Japanese received an additional list - more than 500 hieroglyphs to compile the official name of little Japanese.

The new list of personal characters, compiled in the offices of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, included very extravagant characters. Among the “new products” appeared hieroglyphs with strange meanings for names: “beetle”, “frog”, “spider”, “turnip”.

The child-loving Japanese were seriously indignant. Then the Ministry of Justice of Japan urgently announced that several strange hieroglyphs were excluded from the new list of names: “cancerous tumor”, “prostitute”, “buttock”, “hemorrhoids”, “curse”, “debauchery”, “malice”, etc. Some citizens The countries of the rising sun reacted to the “name scandal” with complete indifference.

In modern Japan, every adult Japanese can take a pseudonym, and after death, almost all Japanese receive new, posthumous names (kaimyo), which are written on a special wooden tablet (ihai) - the embodiment of the spirit of the deceased. Most Japanese believe in reincarnation and try not to worry about the fleeting little things in life, even something as important as a personal name. Perhaps this is why the Japanese rarely give their children the names of their venerable ancestors.

Common Japanese surnames and their meanings

The following table provides a list of the most common Japanese surnames along with characters, readings and their meanings in Russian as of April 2010.

As already written in the article about Japanese names, you may notice that most Japanese surnames mean various rural landscapes.

For the Japanese, a beautiful combination of first and last name is the most important thing. They consider it a complex science. It is known that when choosing a name for a child, they trust only people who specialize in this. Because of such a serious attitude to the choice of names, in the same village you can never hear the same names of boys and girls. In Japan there is no such thing as a “namesake,” and all because the Japanese prefer to use their surnames rather than their given names, of which, by the way, there are many.

First name after last name

Japanese names consist of two adjectives: the family surname and the personal name. In Japan, in turn, the surname is the main one; it is written and spoken first everywhere. Modern Japanese are accustomed to writing their first and last names like Europeans, but in order to designate their last name as the main one, they write it in capital letters. Europeans do not attach importance to this strange and serious attitude of the Japanese towards their surnames, which is why misunderstandings arise regarding the reading, translation and transcription of Japanese names and surnames.

Until the second half of the 19th century, only aristocrats and samurai had surnames in Japan; even their wives did not have the honor of bearing a surname. The rest of the population had only nicknames and personal names. The most notable were the clans of aristocrats - Fuji, which had the general name "Gosetsuke". Today, in the dictionary of Japanese surnames, there are 100,000 family names, of which approximately 70,000 appeared 135 years ago (for comparison: in Europe 50,000, in China a couple of hundred, in Korea about 160, in Russia approximately 85,000, in the USA more than 1 million names). During the Eminence Reign (1868–1911), the reigning Emperor Mutsuhito ordered all Japanese peasants to choose any surname for their family. The Japanese were shocked by this idea; many did not know what to come up with. Some wrote the name of their locality, others the name of their store, and creative people came up with it ourselves unusual surname

, consonant with the name.

A surname is a hereditary clan name, which in Japan is passed down from father to children; wives almost always take their husband's surname. First legislative act

About Japanese surnames appeared in 1870, it stated that every Japanese should take a surname. By this time, already 35 million of the population (descendants of aristocrats and samurai) had surnames.

70% of Japanese surnames consist of two characters. It is very rare to find a surname consisting of 3 or more hieroglyphs.

Types of surnames The first type includes surnames indicating place of residence. The Dictionary of Japanese Surnames considers this type to be the leading one. Often it uses not only names settlements

, but also the name of trees, rivers, terrain, settlements, reservoirs, etc.

Very often, Japanese surnames are associated with peasant life, rice growing and harvesting (almost 60%), it is rare to find an interesting or simply beautiful (from the point of view of a Russian-speaking person) surname.

The second type includes surnames formed as a result of simple professions. For example, “Inukai” - translated this word means nothing more than “dog breeder”.

The third type includes individual nicknames.

Rare but apt beautiful surnames

• Here is a small list of popular, beautiful and unusual surnames:
• Akiyama - autumn;
• Araki - tree;
• Baba is a horse;
• Wada - rice field;
• Yoshida - happiness;
• Kaneko - gold;
• Mizuno - water;
• Suzuki - bell;
• Takagi is a tall tree;
• Fukui - happiness;
• Homma - good luck;
• Yano is an arrow.

Common surname

In Japan, surnames have no ancestral affiliation. One surname suits both men and women.

Previously, Japanese law stipulated that husband and wife must have the same surname. Until 1946, only the husband's surname could be family, but the constitution written in the post-war period abolished this inequality. Modern Japanese can choose a surname if they wish, whether for a husband or a wife, but according to the traditions of old times, spouses settle on the man’s surname.

For Russian people, all Japanese names and surnames seem interesting and unusual. But there are those whose translation sounds like real music.

This is, for example:

• Igarashi - 50 storms;
• Katayama - wild well;
• Kikuchi - chrysanthemum.

Common surnames in Japan

The most popular Japanese surnames in alphabetical order are, of course, offered by the Japanese surname dictionary. Among the surnames:

• A- Ando, ​​Arai, Araki, Asano, Akiyama, Asayama.
• AND- Imai, Ito, Iwasaki, Iwata, Igarasti, Iida, Inoe, Isis (despite the similarity in sound, she is in no way connected with the ancient Egyptian goddess), Ishihara, Ichikawa.
• TO- Kawaguchi, Kawasaki, Kaneko, Kitano.
• M- Maruyama, Masuda, Morimoto, Matila.
• N- Nakahara, Narita, Nakanishi.
• ABOUT- Oyama, Okazaki, Okumura, Ogiva, Ootsuoka.
• WITH- Saida, Sato, Sano, Sakurai, Shibada, Shima.
• T- Tachibana, Takaki, Takeguchi.
• U- Ueda, Uematsu, Ueno, Uchida.
• F- Fujii, Fukushima, Fujimomo, Fujiwra
• X- Hattori, Hattoti, Hirai, Hirata, Hirosa, Homma, Hori.
• C- Tsubaki, Tsuji, Tsuchiya
• I- Yamamura, Yano, Yamanaka, Yamamoto, Yamashita, Yamauchi, Yasuda, Yamashita.

And also Enomoto, Yumake are also on the list of popular and widespread ones, according to the data offered by the dictionary of Japanese surnames.

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Japanese surnames

Japanese full name , as a rule, consists of a family name (surname), followed by a personal name. According to tradition in Japan, the surname comes first, and then the given name. This is a common practice in East and Southeast Asia, including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai and some other cultures.

Modern Japanese often write their names in European order (personal name, and then surname of the clan), if they write in Latin or Cyrillic alphabet.

All Japanese people have a single surname and a single given name. no middle name, except for the Japanese imperial family, whose members do not have a surname.

The first law on Japanese names and surnames appeared at the beginning of the Meiji era - in 1870. According to this law, every Japanese was required to choose a surname for himself. Most of the surnames created at that time come from the names of the area of ​​​​residence. And many Japanese surnames represent various rural landscapes.

Japanese surnames (list)

Akiyama

Asano

Asayama

Arai

Araki

Vada

Watanabe

Yoshimura

Ikeda

Imai

Inoe

Isis

Ishikawa

Katsura

Kido

Kimura

Kita

Kitano

Kobayashi

Kojima

Condo

Kubo

Kubota

Kuroki

Maruyama

Machida

Matsuda

Matsui

Maeda

Minami

Miura

Morimoto

Morita

Murakami

Murata

Nagai

Nakai

Nakagawa

Nakada

Nakamura

Nakano

Nakahara

Nakayama

Narazaki

Ogawa

Ozawa

Okada

Oonisi

Oono

Oyama

Sawada

Sakai

Sakamoto

Sano

Shibata

Suzuki

Taguchi

Takano

Tamura

Tanaka

Tanigawa

Takahashi

Tachibana

Takeda

Uchida

Ueda

Uematsu

Fujita

Fuji

Fujimoto

Fukushima

Hara

Hattori

Hayashi

Hirano

Honda

Hoshino

Tsubaki

Enomoto

Yamada

Yamaki

Yamanaka

Yamasaki

Yamamoto

Yamamura

Yamashita

Yamauchi

Yasuda

The most common Japanese surnames

Suzuki (Wooden bell)

Watanabe (Walk around the neighborhood)

Tanaka (Centre)

Yamamoto (Foot of the Mountain)

Takahashi (High Bridge)

Kobayashi (Little Forest)

Murakami (Village Head)

Nakamura (Village Center)

Kuroki (Ebony)

Oonisi (Greater West)

Hashimoto (bridge)

Miura (three bays)

Takano (plain)

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Japanese girl names and their meanings

Modern Japanese names can be compared to names in many other cultures around the world. All Japanese have last name and first name(no middle name), with the exception of the Japanese imperial family, whose members do not have a surname. Surname (family name) and given name (personal name) are a common practice in East and Southeast Asia, including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai and some other cultures.

Names in Japan often created independently from existing signs, which is why the country has a huge number of unique names. Surnames are more traditional. There are significantly more first names in Japanese than surnames.

Male and female names differ due to their characteristic components and structure.

Before the start of the Meiji Restoration surnames Only aristocrats and samurai had them. The rest of the Japanese population used only personal names and nicknames. Women of aristocratic and samurai families also usually did not have surnames, since they did not have the right of inheritance.

Personal names of aristocrats and high-ranking samurai were formed from two kanji (hieroglyphs) of noble meaning.

Personal names of samurai servants and peasants often given according to the principle of numbering. The first son is Ichiro, the second is Jiro, the third is Saburo, the fourth is Shiro, the fifth is Goro, etc.

At the end of the names of girls from noble families the suffix “-hime” (princess) was added. It was used in relation to all noble girls.

For the names of samurai wives the suffix "-gozen" was used. They were often called simply by their husband's surname and rank.

Personal names married women were practically used only by their close relatives.

For names of monks and nuns from the noble classes the suffix “-in” was used.

Most Japanese female names end in "-ko" ("child") or "-mi" ("beauty"). Girls are usually given names associated with everything beautiful, pleasant and feminine. Some modern girls They don’t like the ending “-ko” in their names and prefer to omit it. For example, a girl named "Yuriko" might call herself "Yuri".

After death, a Japanese gets something new, posthumous name(kaimyo), which is written on a special wooden tablet (ihai). This tablet is considered to be the embodiment of the spirit of the deceased and is used in funeral rites. Kaimyo and ihai are purchased from Buddhist monks - sometimes even before the person's death.

During the Meiji Restoration, all Japanese people were given surnames.

The most common Japanese surnames are:

Watanabe, Ito, Kato, Kobayashi, Kudo, Kuroki, Murakami, Nakamura, Saito, Sato, Sasaki, Suzuki, Takahashi, Tanaka, Oonishi, Higa, Yamaguchi, Yamamoto.

Japanese female names

Azumi– safe place to live

Azemi– thistle flower

Ay- Love

Aki– autumn, bright

Akiko– autumn child or smart child

Akira– bright, clear, dawn

Ameya– evening rain

Arisa– majestic

Asemi– morning beauty

And I– colorful, woven silk

Izumi- fountain

Yoko– ocean child, confident child

Yoshi– fragrant branch, good bay

Cam– turtle (symbol of long life)

Kay- respectful

Kiku– chrysanthemum

Kimi– abbreviation for names starting with "Kimi"

Kimiko – beautiful child, dear child, ruling child

Kin– gold

Kyoko- child of the capital

Koheku– amber

Kumiko- beautiful, long-lived

Miwa– beautiful harmony, three rings

Midori– green

Mizuki- beautiful moon

Miya– quiet

Mika– beautiful aroma

Miki– beautiful tree, three trees

Miko– beautiful child, blessing

Minori– beautiful harbor

Mineko- beautiful child

Miho– beautiful bay

Michi– path

Michiko- child on the right way

Mommo- peach

Momo– a hundred blessings, a hundred rivers

Momoko– baby peach

Moriko- forest child

May– dance

Meiko– child’s dance

Maine– true

Mariko – the real reason

Masa– abbreviation for names starting with "Masa"

Naoki- tree

Naomi- beauty

Nobuko- devoted child

Nori– abbreviation for names starting with "Nori"

Noriko– child of principles

Neo– honest

Neoko- honest child

Ohara- pensive

Ran– water lily

Ray- polite

Ren– water lily

Rika– appreciated aroma

Rico– jasmine

Ryoko – good child

Ruri- emerald

Sake– cape

Sora- sky

Suzu- call

Secker– cherry blossom

Tomiko (Temiko)- rich

Tomoko- friendly, wise child

Toshi– emergency

Toshiko- priceless child

Thackera- treasure

Fuji– wisteria

Fumiko- a child who preserved beauty

Hideko- luxurious child

Hikaru- light, bright

Hiro– widespread

Hiroko- generous child

Hiromi- beauty

Hoshi– star

Hena– favorite, or flower

Chica– wisdom

Cho- butterfly

Shizuka– quiet

Chic– gentle deer

Eika– love song

Eiko- beloved child, child of love

Amy- the beauty of love

Amy- smile

Emiko- smiling child

Erie– lucky prize

Yuka– fragrant, friendly dawn

Yuki- snow

Yukiko – snow child

Yuko– useful child

Yumi– bow, useful beauty

Yumiko- a beautiful, useful child

Yuri– lily

Yuriko– little lily, dear child

Yasu– calm

Yasuko- honest child, peaceful child

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The modern Japanese name in its composition follows the tradition characteristic of Chinese, Korean and a number of other cultures. According to this tradition, a Japanese name consists of a family name or surname followed by a personal name. Names in Japan are most often written using kanji, which in different cases have different variants pronunciation.

All modern Japanese have a single surname and a single first name; they do not have a patronymic. The only exception is the imperial family, whose members have only a first name without a surname.

The Japanese pronounce and write their first and last names in reverse order than is common in the West. First comes the last name, then the first name. However, in Western languages, Japanese names are written in the order familiar to Europeans - the surname follows the given name.

Japanese names are often created independently from existing characters. As a result, this country has a large number of unique, non-repetitive names. More traditional are surnames, which, by their origin, often relate to toponyms. Thus, there are much more first names in Japanese than surnames. The difference between female and male names is expressed in the use of component names and their structure characteristic of each type. It should be noted that reading Japanese names is perhaps the most difficult element in the Japanese language.

Transcription of Japanese names

Most often, in other languages ​​that use the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet, Japanese names are written according to their transcription, as well as ordinary Japanese text, according to the rules of a particular system - for example, Romaji, the Polivanov system. Not less common is the recording of Japanese names in non-standard transliteration, for example, instead of “si”, “shi” is used, and instead of “ji” - “ji”, which is explained by an attempt to transliterate from the Latin spelling of the name using the romaji system. For example, the first and last name Honjou Shizuka is read by Russian-speaking readers in most cases as Honjou Shizuka, and not Honjo Shizuka.

In Latin and Cyrillic transcription, Japanese names often appear in the order familiar to Europeans - first name, then surname, i.e. Yamada Taro is usually written as Tarou Yamada. This order is found in news feeds, magazines and journalistic publications. The Japanese spelling order is less commonly used, but in this case the surname in Latin spelling is written entirely in capital letters. The Japanese traditional order of indicating surname and first name can be found in professional linguistic publications.

Sometimes you can find a Latin spelling of a name using standard Latin abbreviations of the name before the initial. Vowels in Japanese have different lengths, which may be shown orthographically in transliteration (for example, Tarou Yamada), or may not be shown at all (for example, Taro Yamada). In Cyrillic writing, the length of vowels is usually not shown. The exception is educational publications, where the length of vowel sounds is shown in brackets after writing in hieroglyphs and is indicated by a colon.

In Japanese, the relationship of interlocutors to each other is expressed by a suffix, which is added after the name. So, san is characteristic of respectful neutral communication, kun is used in a conversation between two men, a classmate or work colleagues equal rank, and chan is an analogue of diminutive suffixes in Russian. The last suffix is ​​usually used during close acquaintances, when addressing girls or children.

Most Japanese people address each other by their last name. Only among friends and good acquaintances is it possible to address someone by name without a suffix; in other cases, such an address will be considered familiar.

As mentioned above, the choice of a name in Japan is not limited in any way; names can be created from any permitted hieroglyphs. Of course, many Japanese people use popular names that respect certain traditions.

Female Japanese names

Most Japanese names are easy to read and write, but a trend has emerged among parents to choose characters with an unusual spelling or reading. It is for this reason that a large number of interpretations of both the meaning and reading of Japanese names have appeared. This trend began to actively manifest itself from the end of the 20th century.

This phenomenon especially affected women's names. It is for this reason that the popularity of a particular female name is not as stable as that of a male name. Over the past 20 years, the names Misaki and Sakura have continued to rank in the top ten, but have been overtaken by names like Hina, Aoi, Rin and Yui, which have not been among the top five most popular female names in the last 100 years.

Japanese girl names have a clear and understandable meaning and are easy to read. Most female names are composed of a main component and an indicator, although there are names that do not have an indicator component. Depending on the meaning of the main component, it can be divided into several types.

• Many female names fall into the group of names with abstract meanings. These names are based on components meaning “love”, “calmness”, “tenderness” and others. Such names are given as a wish to possess certain qualities in the future (Kyoko, Michi).
• The next group of names are names that contain animal or plant components. In the past, girls were often given similar names. It was believed to promote health. However, today the fashion for names with animal components has passed. Only the crane component is still popular. And hieroglyphs associated with the world of flora do not go out of fashion to this day. Very often you can find names with components denoting “chrysanthemum” or “bamboo” (Sakura, Hana, Kiku).
• It is very rare to find names with numerals that take their roots in ancient tradition call girls from noble families by birth order (Nanami, Anko).
• You can also find names that have a component with the meaning of seasons, time of day, etc. (Yuki, Kasuma)
• Fashion for foreign names(Anna, Maria and others).

Beautiful Japanese names. Biggest changes occurred among female names. New signs and hieroglyphs were added to write the name, the view on the general use of female names changed - more European-sounding names began to appear that resemble European names, although traditionally written in hieroglyphs and compiled according to traditional Japanese traditions. Examples would be the names Naomi, Mika, Yuna.

Currently, beautiful Japanese names contain an animal or plant component less and less often, and abstract concepts and desired meanings have increasingly begun to be used. good qualities, future successes (Haruto, Hina, Yuna, Yamato, Sora, Yua). Although the name Sakura does not leave the dozens of the most popular female names, female name Aoi (mallow) and the male name Ren (lotus) are firmly in the top five.

The previously common component of the name with the ending “-ko”, which literally means “child”, began to be considered unfashionable, outdated, and therefore is used less and less, although it has not completely given up its position (Asako, Yumiko, Takako).

Japanese male names

Men's names are incredibly difficult to read. It is in them that non-standard nanori reads and rare reads are used, sometimes some components change in a non-standard way. Thus, the names Kaoru, Shigekazu and Kungoro contain the same hieroglyph, but each individual name is read differently. Also, the same component of yoshi names, which is very common in Japan, can be written with 104 different characters or their combinations. It happens that only the native speaker can read a name correctly.

Often one-component names come from verbs or adjectives. For example, Kaoru comes from the verb “to smell,” and Hiroshi comes from the adjective “wide.” Male names that include two hieroglyphs use the hieroglyph denoting a male name as the second hieroglyph, which also shows how the name is read. Names with three components have a similar two-component indicator (Katsumi, Macao, Naoki, Sora).

Time does not stand still, and modern trends have made their own adjustments. Now traditional ones continue to predominate among male names, but now they have various options reading. Popular male names in 2005 included names such as Sho, Shota, Hikaru, Tsubasa, Yamato, Takumi and various variations of the name Hiroto.

The traditional male name Hiroto now has alternative readings and “Romanized” transcriptions. In the Russian version of pronunciation and recording, these are as if completely different and not at all close, dissimilar names, because it’s all about recording the hieroglyph and voicing it. Modern twins for the name Hiroto are Haruto, Yamato, Daito, Taiga, Sora, Taito, Masato, all of them are used in modern times on a par with their progenitor.

Most often, male names are divided into the following groups, but these are only the most basic.

• The name contains the component “-ro”, which is interpreted as “son” (Ichiro, Shiro, Saburo). But this part of the name is also attributed the meaning “light”, “clear”, which can add different shades to the meaning of the name.
• The “-to” component is considered masculine and is very rare among female names. It means either “person” (Yuto, Kaito) or “fly”, “soar” (Hiroto).
• The “-dai” component means “big, great.” Used only in male names (Dai, Daichi, Daisuke, Daiki).
• Aspirational names are popular, in which the boy is credited with masculine traits, future successes and wonderful life(Takeshi, Niboru, Ken).
• Traditional names for the Japanese are those related to natural phenomena, seasons, and natural materials (Kita, Montaro, Kohaku, Akiyama).

List of Japanese names with descriptions

List of Japanese names with meanings

Ai - love

Ayaka - colorful flower

Aiko - favorite child

Aina - loving

Akemi - dazzlingly beautiful

Aki - born in autumn

Akiko - autumn child

Akira - smart, quick-witted

Akihito – bright, friendly

Akiyama – autumn mountain

Amaya - night rain

Ami - beautiful Asian girl

Amida – Japanese name for Buddha Amitabha

Anzu - apricot

Anko (Aneko) – older sister

Aoi - pink mallow

Arisu – noble (Japanese equivalent of the name Alice)

Atsuko (Azuko) - kind child

Ayame – iris

Ayana – beautiful sounding

Bachiko – happy child

Botan – long life, longevity

Gin/Gin – silver

Goro – fifth son

Daiki - great tree, great shine

Daisuke - great help

Izumi - fountain

Ima – now

Isamu - cheerful

Itsu (Etsu) – delightful, charming

Ichiro – first son

Ishi – stone

Yoko (Yuko) – light/sunny child

Yori – trustworthy

Yoshi – reed

Kagami – mirror

Kazuko – harmonious child

Kazuo – man of peace

Kaze – wind

Kazuki – hope for peace

Kazuya - harmonious, cheerful

Kaito - elusive

Kameko – child of the turtle (symbol of longevity)

Kana - diligent

Kano – male power, opportunity

Kasumi - haze, fog

Katashi – hardness

Katsu – victory

Katsuo – victorious child

Katsuro – victorious son

Keiko – blessed child, happy child

Ken – strong, healthy

Kenji – strong second son

Kenshin - the heart of the sword

Kenta - healthy and brave

Kiyoko – purity

Kiyoshi – quiet

Kiku – chrysanthemum

Kimiko – child of noble blood

Kin – gold

Kino – aerial, forest

Kita – north

Kichiro – lucky son

Koko – stork

Koto - the name of the national musical instrument of the Japanese - “koto”, melodic

Kohaku – amber

Kohana - small flower

Kumiko - forever beautiful

Kuri – chestnut

Mai – bright, leaf, dance

Maeko – an honest child

Makoto - sincere, true, truthful

Mami - true beauty

Mamoru – earth, protector

Manami – the beauty of love

Marise – infinity

Matsuo – pine

Maemi – sincere smile

Midori – green

Mika – first sound, three trees

Mina - beauty

Mirai – treasure

Misaki – flowering of beauty, beautiful flowering

Miu - beautiful feather

Mitsuki - beautiful moon

Mitsuko – child of light

Michi – fair, road

Miya – three arrows

Montaro – mountains

Momoko – child peach

Nami – wave

Nana – apple, seven

Nanami - seven seas

Naoki - straight tree

Naoko – obedient child, honest child

Naomi – beautiful

Nara – oak

Nariko – sissy, thunder

Natsuko – year old child

Natsumi – beautiful summer

Nibori – famous, rising

Nikki – new hope

Nori - law, ceremony, rite

Nyoko – precious stone

Oki – middle of the ocean

Osamu – law-abiding

Reiko – grateful child, child of thanksgiving

Renzo – third son

Ryo – distant reality

Ryota – corpulent, fat

Riko – child of jasmine, child of reason

Riku - earth, dry land

Rin - unfriendly, cold

Rini - little bunny