Japanese Name Generator

The Japanese Name Generator can suggest you Japanese names for your characters (for your own novels or games), your babies or anything else randomly.

It contains more than 50,000 Japanese last names, girl's names and boy's names.

Just input your gender and date of birth to make your own Japanese name.

About Japanese names

Basically Japanese people have only one family name and one given name. They don't have any other names such as middle name.

There are more than 100,000 different family names in Japan. Most famous family name is SATO. Here is the 10 most famous and common Japanese faimly names

Sato
Suzuki
Takahashi
Tanaka
Watanabe
Ito
Yamamoto
Nakamura
Kobayashi
Saito

Japanese imperial faimily has no family name

Japanese emperor gave their people family names in the past. There is no one who can give family name emperor. So Japanese emperor and their family still have no family names.

About Japanese KIRAKIRA names

What if your name is 'Pikachu'? Do you think you are happy with your name? I think someone say 'Yes' but most of people say 'No'. But some of people give their son and daughter name such as 'Pikachu' in Japan. Japanese calls that kind of names 'KIRAKIRA name'. 'KIRAKIRA name' means 'Twinkle name' or 'Shiny name' in Japanese.

About names of Japanese animations and mangas

Some of names of Japanese animations and mangas are not real Japanese names, although they sounds like real Japanese names. Those are just made for animations or mangas for fun. So you should know that some of them sound real cool and gorgeous as animation or manga characters' names, but they could sound really funny and weired as real people names. If you use a name of them as your real name in Japan, Japanese people may laugh at your name. This Japanese name maker tool make Japanese real names. So you can use this tool to make Japanese name for your characters of any creations such as manga, animation or novel and also your own real Japanese name.

Hiragana Pronunciation Table

You can check Appearance and Sound of Hiragana using the Hiragana Pronunciation Table.

Japanese characters are made of Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana. Please check the other pages to see Katakana or Kanji

Katakana Pronunciation Table

You can check Appearance and Sound of Katakana using the Katakana Pronunciation Table.

Japanese characters are made of Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana. Please check the other pages to see Hiragana or Kanji

Japanese Name Generator

The Japanese Name Generator can suggest you Japanese names for your characters (for your own novels or games), your babies or anything else randomly.

It contains more than 50,000 Japanese last names, girl's names and boy's names.

Just input your gender and date of birth to make your own Japanese name.

Japanese Kanji Name Dictionary (How to read Japanese name)

You can search how to read Japanese name.