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Japanese Name Explorer

Combine pronunciation, written-form and corpus classifications to find source-recorded names. Filters are a research utility: combinations stay temporary and canonical name pages remain the primary reference records.

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12 results shownAlphabetical by indexed reading.
Given name · includes male-classified records

Kōichirō

好一郎こういちろう · 6 morae

164 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōjirō

好司郎こうじろう · 5 morae

145 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōshirō

好四郎こうしろう · 5 morae

34 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōtarō

好太郎こうたろう · 5 morae

117 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōzaburō

好三郎こうざぶろう · 6 morae

38 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshigorō

好五郎よしごろう · 5 morae

7 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshīchirō

好一郎よしいちろう · 6 morae

13 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Given name · mixed classified records

Yoshio

好郎よしお · 3 morae

287 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshirō

好郎よしろお · 4 morae

11 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshirō

好郎よしろう · 4 morae

64 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshisaburō

好三郎よしさぶろう · 6 morae

11 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yoshitarō

好太郎よしたろう · 5 morae

17 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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What the explorer can and cannot tell you

Exact-kanji filters require the selected character(s) to occur in the same JMnedict written form. Morae are calculated from the source-recorded kana reading. Gender labels reflect dictionary classifications in the imported records. “Most corpus spelling variants” measures source-record coverage only; it is not a popularity ranking in Japan.