Japanese Name Gender Finder:
The Japanese name chart to find out if it is a boy's name or girl's name / given name or family name.
New Message: Finally, I have updated this page. It should be mobile friendly now. I kept the page as simple to use & fast to load as possible. Hope everyone doesn't mind the change. Thank you for using this page, everyone. (^.^) (7 Nov 2016)
After years of spending time in the English speaking countries, I still have a problem to figure out which gender some English names are for. I used a wrong title several times in the past. (e.g. Ms for a male manager when I sent my CV applying for a job...)
I created a chart to find the gender for English names for Japanese people, and many people found it useful. Then I thought some of you might have the same problem for Japanese names as we have for English names, so here is a chart for you - Japanese Name Gender Finder!!!
I hope it will be helpful...
Note: I made this list simply I thought it would be useful to know/guess the gender from names because we occasionally use Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss and She/He in our writings/conversations. And for a non-native speaker, the uncertainty of a person's gender (= a fear of making mistakes/being rude) will lead hesitation in communicating with the person. Please understand that I have no intention of encouraging users to prejudge people by gender. Thank you!
Click the initial of the Japanese name!
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G...Girl's Name (Given name/first name for female)
F...Family Name (Last name)
*Please be aware that there is no rule without exceptions! People use boys name for girls and girls name for boys quite often these days.
| Name | B/G/F | Name | B/G/F | Name | B/G/F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obinata | F | Obuchi | F | Ochiai | F |
| Ochida | F | Ochiyo | G | Oda | B |
| Odaka | F | Ogai | B | Ogata | F |
| Ogiwara | F | Ogura | F | Ogyu | F |
| Oharu | G | Ohba | F | Ohira | F |
| Ohishi | F | Ohka | F | Ohmae | F |
| Ohmiya | F | Oichi | F | Oinuma | F |
| Oishi | F | Okabe | F | Okada | F |
| Okakura | F | Okamoto | F | Okamura | F |
| Okanao | F | Okanaya | F | Okano | F |
| Okasawa | F | Okawa | F | Okazaki | F |
| Okazawaya | F | Oki | G | Okichi | G |
| Okiku | G | Okimasa | F | Okimoto | F |
| Okita | F | Okitsugu | B | Okubo | F |
| Okuda | F | Okui | F | Okuma | F |
| Okumura | F | Okura | F | Okyoito | B |
| Omezo | B | Omitsu | G | Omori | F |
| Omura | F | Oniji | B | Onishi | F |
| Ono | F | Onoda | F | Onoe | F |
| Onohara | F | Ooka | F | Orinosuke | B |
| Osagawa | F | Osamu | B | Oshima | F |
| Oshin | F | Ota | F | Otaka | F |
| Otake | F | Otani | F | Otojiro | B |
| Otomo | F | Otsu | GF | Otsuka | F |
| Otsune | G | Ouchi | F | Oyama | F |
| Ozaki | F | Ozawa | F | Ozu | F |
(^.^)/~Thank you for your contributions: JJ, kam, moti, kai, Susumu Zenyoji, Trench...