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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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15 results shownAlphabetical by indexed reading.
Given name · mixed classified records

Kō

鋼こう · 2 morae

77 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Given name · includes male-classified records

Kōdō

鋼道こうどう · 4 morae

30 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōichi

鋼一こういち · 4 morae

101 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōichirō

鋼一郎こういちろう · 6 morae

164 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Given name · gender-unspecified records

Kōitsu

鋼乙こういつ · 4 morae

5 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōji

鋼次こうじ · 3 morae

268 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōjirō

鋼次郎こうじろう · 5 morae

145 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōnosuke

鋼之助こうのすけ · 5 morae

148 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōshirō

鋼四郎こうしろう · 5 morae

34 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōsuke

鋼典こうすけ · 4 morae

104 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōtarō

鋼太郎こうたろう · 5 morae

117 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōzaburō

鋼三郎こうざぶろう · 6 morae

38 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kōzō

鋼三こうぞう · 4 morae

97 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Given name · includes female-classified records

Kuro

黒鋼くろ · 2 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Given name · gender-unspecified records

Ryūkō

隆鋼りゅうこう · 4 morae

19 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.