Ok... Well, my Jpns. names and western names are kinda mixed in my lists right now, so you can go through and see what you like... Some will go w/
Indigo and some won't, but it'll give you something to play around w/ and perhaps you'll find some new names that catch your fancy. I'm putting a Jpns. prn. guide at the bottom of this post so you'll know how to prn. the Jpns. names. I do have some obscure names from some other languages in here as well.
AmaryllisAyako 綾子
AuroraAlejandraAmandaAntoniaAsami 愛佐実
AbigailAkiyo 明代
Amika 愛美歌
Azusa 愛津佐
Amity Airi 愛利
AdelaideAtsuyo 敦代
Aimi 愛実
AnnetteAyaka 礼歌 or 礼香
Aviva Akina 愛基名
Arielle AnnelieseAnnabree
Akemi 明実
Aoi 青
Akari 明加利
AnastasiaAlanaAina 愛名
Ayano 彩野
Ayuki 歩喜
AnnettaAcaciaAzureAzuraBronwynBrielleBeate (prn'd bee-ah-tay)
BelindaBrianne BriannaBeverlyBetsyBlancheBiancaBethChiaki 知愛基
Chiemi 智恵実
Chinatsu 知名津
Chinami 知名実
ChristaCharleen (w/ hard ch, though the normal way is fine too)
CharissaChizuru 千鶴
Chikako 知香子
CristinaCoriChieki 知恵基
CarmenCarmelChisato 智里
Chihiro 智寛
CandisChie 知恵
Chieri 知恵里
Chisa 千砂
Chikina 智基名
CarissaChantelleCoralChristianaDeborahDevorahDomingaDanicaDellaDoveDawnDaleDallasDaraDavinaDominiqueDarlaDarleneDoriEsperanzaEmiko 恵美子
ElizabethElisa 恵里佐
Erika 恵里歌
Etsuyo 悦代
Emerald Erina 恵里名
Eina 栄名
EstherEmiho 恵実保
Eugenia Esperance
EbonyElianaEliseElisheva ElizaElsieEmilianaEsmeeEstellaEstelleEvangelineEvalena
Eri 恵理
Emi 恵美
Eriko 恵理子
Etsuko 悦子
FelicityFeliciaFaithFrancescaFrancineFrancesFumiko 富美子
Fumika 文歌
Fusako (old) 芙紗子
Fusa (old) 総
Fumie (fu-me-ay) 踏絵
Fumina 文名
Fuyuko (old) 冬子
Freda /Frieda/Freida
GabriellaGabrielleGiannaGretaGerda (prob'ly would have less appeal if it weren't for the fact that a know someone w/ this name who's pretty awesome)
GenevieveGeorgiaGeorgianaGiovannaGretelGeraldine Hitomi 瞳
Harmony Hailey /
Hayley (semi-like, but not enthrawled w/)... would use 平里 as kanji for it
Heidi Himawari ひまわり
Hidemi
HadarHadassah HannahHilaryHopeHiroka 弘歌
Hiromi 弘美
Hiroko 広子
Haruka 春賀
Harumi 晴美
Haruko 春子
Haru 春
Hina 雛
Hisako 久子
Hisae 久恵
Hiroe 廣江
Hisayo 久代
HeatherHariet
HenriettaHope Hana 花
Hanako 花子
HazelHollyHosannah
Izumi 和泉
Ikue 生恵
Itsuki 生連基
Ikina 生基名
Ilana Ivanna JocelynJoleneJasmineJohanneke Joy JanelleJoanneJessicaJoelle Jeannette Jessilyn
Joanna Jerusha Jacinta Janessa JadaJadeJaelJaneJaninaJanineJemimaJessamineJodiJordanaJosetteJubilee
JuanaJustinaJunko 潤子
Juri じゅり (relatively modern Jpns. name... not 1 of my faves, but there are a few out there.)
JustineKikuyo 喜久代
KathleenKiyoe 聖恵
Kisae 喜佐恵
Kaori 歌織里
Kotone 琴音
Kiyu 喜由
Kokoro 心
Kendra Katsura 桂
Kaede 楓
Kazue 和恵
Kikue 基久恵
Kikina 喜基名
Kikumi 基久実 or 喜久実
Kaja 歌矢 (Kaya works in Jpns. as well, so it's possible to put kanji with it and have it cross over)
Kaho 歌保
Kikuyo 菊代
KarleneKayo 加代
Katsue 勝恵
Kotoe 琴恵
KamariaKiyoka 基代歌
Kelila KailaKarynKimiko 喜実子
Katsumi 勝実
KatrinaKeziah Kiyomi 清美
KiaraKristinKylieLaurel Laurelle Lana LaraLeonaLinneaLisaLorettaLoriLiesl LornaLuciaLucilleLydiaLyndaLynnetteMabelMabellaMinami 美名実
Michie 道恵
Miwa 実和
MagdaMattea
Marie 真里恵
Mahoe 真穂恵
Mikie 実喜恵
Michina 実知名
Misa 実佐
MargotManamiMelodi
MichelleMarissaMarni MeganMelindaMercedesMercyMilicaMoriah Maki 真喜
Makina 真基名
Mana 真名
Mahiro 真寛
Mayumi 真由美
Mie 実恵
Mieka 実恵歌
Mieko 実恵子
Mieho 実恵保
Mika 実歌
Mikako 実加子
Mikina 実基名
Mikiyo 実基代
Misato 実里
Michika 道歌
Michimi 道実
Michiyo 道代
MelissaMyfanwyMotoe 基恵
Mitsue 光恵
Michiko 道子
Mikiko 実喜子
Miyuki 美由貴
Mizuki 瑞貴
Miela Motoka 基香
Mayu 真由
Marika 茉莉香
Mitsuyo 光世
Miho 実穂
Mei 明
Midori 緑
Marina 真里名
Marino 真里野
Naomi 直美
Machiko 真智子
Miyu 実結
Mayu 真由
Masami 真佐実
Mio 美織
Mitsue 満恵
Megumi 恵
MirandaMayim Madoka真戸佳 or 真戸歌 or 真戸加
Mavelle
Miguela Migiwa 溿
Namie 波恵
Noelle NellNelia
Nellva
Nellana
Nozomi 希望
Natasha Natalia Natsuki 名津喜
NadiaNancee
NoellaNava NessaNatsue 名津恵
Nobue 信恵
NoreenNatsumi 名津実
Natsuko 名津子
NicolaOksanaOlivia Oceana (prn. Osheena)
Pamela PatriciaPetraPhillippa (
Pippa)
RachelleReina 礼名
ReginaRenataRikina 利基名
RubinaRisa 里佐
RobertaRobynRona RoniRosaliaRosalieRosellaRosettaRoshanna
Ritsue 里津恵 –
Rose Roselle Rohini
RosinaRoxanaRoshana
RuthRicki Rayael
Reika 礼香
Raquel Renee Roxanne Shinobu 志信 or 詩信 or 信宣
Setsuyo 摂代
Staci Sakie 沙貴恵
Sayuri 小百合
Sachie 祥恵
Sakura 桜
Shiho 詩穂
Saya 佐矢
Saori 佐織里
Symphony Sayumi 佐由実
Sakino 佐基乃
Sundeia
Samantha SamaraSapphireSashaSanae 佐名恵
SavannahScarletSharonaShayna SherriShilohShoshanna
Sosoe 注恵
Sakura 桜
Seika 聖歌
Satomi 聖実
SierraSusannahSuzanneSvetlana Sakina 佐基名
Sachika 祥歌
Sachino 祥之
Satoe 智恵
Satoko 聡子
Saho 佐穂
Sosoka 注歌
Sosoki 注喜
ShaunaStarla Sambi 賛美
StephanieSachie 祥恵
Sachiko 祥子
Solveig Sahiro 佐寛
Shihiro 詩寛
Sosomi 注実
SerenaSetsu 摂
Setsue 摂恵
Setsuko 摂子
Setsumi 摂実
Setsuho 摂穂
Sundeia (sundeeah)
Toshimi 稔実
Toshika 稔歌
Tomoko 友子
Thabisa
Tabitha Tamae 多真恵
Tamari 多真里
Toshie 稔恵
Toshiyo 稔代
Toyomi 豊実
Tahlia Tamara Tamsin TerriTiann
Tova Tobiah ToriTzeitel Tziporah Tomoe 友恵
Toshiko 稔子
Theresa Trisha Tsutako 津多子
Trudene
Tehilah
Teruna 照名
VivianVanessaVerityVeronicaVivienneVictoria VivianaWendene
Xavia XeniaXoanaYaelYukari 由歌里
Yukie 由基恵
Yukiko 由基子
Yukina 由基名
Yoshie 代詩恵
Yoshimi 代志実
Yukiyo 由基代
Yuzumi 由津実
Yoshika 代志歌
YvetteYuri 百合
Yumi 由実
Yumiko 由実子
Yumina 由実名
Yumie 由実恵
Yumika 由美歌
Yumino 由美之
Yui 由井
Yuika 由井加
Yuki 由基
Yuka 由佳
Yuko 祐子
Yukako 由加子
Yuna 由名
Yoko 洋子
Yoshiko 良子
Yoriko 順子
Yuriko 百合子
Yoshino 吉之
Yurika 由里歌
YvonneYvetteYayoi 弥生
Yasuko 康子
Yuu 祐
Yo 洋
Yuiko 由井子
Yuzuki 柚喜
Yuzue 由津恵
Yemesi
Zakia
ZoeZipporah
Jpns. prn. guide
Did this up for someone on another site and decided all this effort ought not be wasted on only 1 person who may or may not get much usefrom this, so I've decided to make it public domain to access for those whodon't know so much about Jpns. pronunciation and/or are curious and wanting tolearn or to share it w/ someone else you know who wants to learn. I rarely makemy fb stuff open to everyone in the public, but this is an exception 'causethere's nothing private in here anyway.
We usually write Japanese for En. speakers in what isreferred to as "romaji". It's a set of roman letter combos torepresent Jpns. sounds in roman letters. There are some alternative ways ofwriting things, but not what En. speakers would relate to... but would insteadmake them cringe. They're not"translated"; they're transliterated... and not just from kanji, butfrom the sylabaries as well (any kanji prn can be written in syls), so here arethe hiragana (2 sets of syls: hiragana and katakana... the latter of which havea similar set of sounds and are just written differently and don't need to beadded for the immediate purpose of this).
あ - a prn. ah
い - i prn. ee
う - u prn. oo like in flute
え - e prn. like eh or ay
お - o like in oats
note: ou just says o, but longer.
Ai is pronounced like eye. Ei says ay or ayee. au says ow.
from here on it just sounds like the consonants w/ the vowelsound as rendered above unless I state otherwise re: the consonants. Vowelstend to be relatively consistent... ou is just a longer o sound though and aiis prn'd like the name of our letter I (so is ae sometimes unless you separatethe vowels... which can also happen).
か - ka
き - ki
く - ku
け - ke
こ - ko
さ - sa
し - si or shi... is prn'd shi (she)
す - su
せ - se
そ - so
た - ta
ち - ti or chi... is prn'd chi (like in cheeks)
つ - tu or tsu... is prn'd tsu (ts cons. cluster unnatural to En. speakers at the beginning of a syl)
て - te
と - to
な - na
に - ni
ぬ - nu
ね - ne
の - no
ん - n... orsometimes m... depending on the word it's written in... It's basically an endof the syl. nasal consonant (only end of syl. consonant occurring in Jpns.) andis a general nasal. If there is a consonant following it, its prn. maycorrespond w/ where in the mouth the next cons. is prn'd... which is why somepeople will write konbawa as kombawa... because be is a bilabial consonant andcan cause the nasal to become bilablial as well in some people's prn.
は - ha
ひ - hi
ふ - hu or fu... but neither of those is exactly right... the Jpns. h sound is a frontal hsound rather than a back h sound like we En. speakers have. Plus, the En. fsound is a labio-dental (lip and teeth) sound while the Jpns. f is actually abilabial (both lips... no teeth) sound and is what linguists would call abilabial fricative.
へ - he ... except when it's used as a directionmarker and the h gets dropped
ほ - ho
ま - ma
み - mi
む - mu
め - me
も - mo
や - ya
ゆ - yu
よ - yo
ら - ra (the r is actually somewhere between an rand an l rather than being exactly 1 or the other)
り - ri
る - ru
れ - re
ろ - ro
わ - wa
を - wo or o,depending whom you're talking to. Wo is more old-fashioned and a lot of (Jpns.)people don't even know that it can be prn'd this way, but I spent 4 yrs. inEhime where they still prn. it this way and got corrected at first for using oeven though I'd never heard of it being said wo before ('cause my college proffrom Fukushima never taught us that... they don't say it that way up there).Most people just say o, but it's ONLY used as a particle these days and not inregular words, so it's only an issue if you're reading full sentences inromaji, which feels extremely unnatural to me.
が - ga ... ALWAYS a hard g
ぎ - gi
ぐ - gu
げ - ge
ご - go
ざ - za
じ - zi or ji... prn. is ji
ず - zu
ぜ - ze
ぞ - zo
だ - da
ぢ - di or ji... prn. is ji
づ - du or zu... prn. is zu
で - de
ど - do
ば - ba
び - bi
ぶ - bu
べ - be
ぼ - bo
ぱ - pa
ぴ - pi
ぷ - pu
ぺ - pe
ぽ - po
きゃ - kya (remember... y's not a vowel, so these willbe cons. clusters)
きゅ - kyu
きょ - kyo
しゃ - sya or sha ... prn.'d sha
しゅ - syu or shu ... prn.'d shu
しょ - syo or sho ... prn.'d sho
ちゃ - tya or cha ... prn.'d cha
ちゅ - tyu or chu ... prn'd chu
ちょ - tyo or cho ... prn.'d cho
にゃ - nya (like in lasagne)
にゅ - nyu
にょ - nyo
ひゃ - hya
ひゅ - hyu
ひょ - hyo
みゃ - mya
みゅ - myu
みょ - myo
りゃ - rya (themost challenging set of Jpns. sounds for En. speakers)
りゅ - ryu
りょ - ryo
ぎゃ - gya
ぎゅ - gyu
ぎょ - gyo
じゃ - zya or ja ... prn.'d ja
じゅ - zyu or ju ... prn.'d ju
じょ - zyo or jo ... prn.'d jo
ぢゃ - dya or ja ... prn'd ja
ぢゅ - dyu or ju ... prn.'d ju
ぢょ - dyo or jo ... prn.'d jo
びゃ - bya
びゅ - byu
びょ - byo
ぴゃ - pya
ぴゅ - pyu
ぴょ - pyo
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