Convert Your Name to Japanese
Pages in category 'Japanese masculine given names' The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,344 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Name Meaning Gender Origin Similar; Ai: love: Female: Japanese: Aika: love song: Female: Japanese: Aiko: beloved one, little love: Female: Japanese: Aimi: love beauty. Japanese baby names are rarely used in the English-speaking world, as English names are rarely used in Japan. In other Asian countries, people often take on English names to ease pronunciation and spelling confusion when going to school or working internationally, but Japanese names are spelled and pronounced in a way that translates across tongues.
This is another one of those romaji to Katakana converters.
- in katakana is . This is the conventional way to represent foreign names in Japanese.
- in romaji is This is how you would pronounce it using the roman alphabet.
If you are looking for Japanese names, you can search our list of Japanese names.
Not another romaji to katakana converter...?
...Not exactly. This one is different. It attempts to transliterate real natural English to katakana more accurately than most of the other transliterators out there.
It does this by using a combination of dictionary lookup (from a database of more than 4,000 common names), substitution rules and machine learning.
Nolan Lawson describes in detail here how he developed the engine. I extend mountains of gratitude to Nolan for allowing me to use this on Japanga.com
Japanese Names For Boys
There are an estimated 300,000 Japanese last names. Around 300 B.C., people in Japan began using occupational or geographical names to define their clan (a group of people related by blood, marriage or a common ancestor). These clans grew into small kingdoms, which were then united under one ruler who gave each clan a designation according to their societal status. This was called the Uji-Kabane system and was the foundation for Japanese family names.
Use the list below to find your last name and learn about its meaning and origins.
Most Popular Japanese Last Names on FamilyEducation: Amari, Akiyama, Fujiwara
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