Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Erena

エレナ

Female-classified given-name records.

えれなエレナErena

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Reference coverage

Extended source depth

This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.

Distinct recorded spellings32

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows33

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Erena

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingえれな

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formエレナ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationErena

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Erena. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationえ · れ · な

3 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

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Meaning by written form

What can Erena mean?

A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Erena”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings10

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings2

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

エレナ

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses

エKana characterレKana characterナKana character

Kana-only spelling

えれな

Characters and loaded glosses

えKana characterれKana characterなKana character

Kanji spelling

依怜奈

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses

依reliant, depend on, consequently怜wise奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

恵怜菜

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace怜wise菜vegetable, side dish, greens

Kanji spelling

恵澪奈

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace澪water route, shipping channel奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

恵玲奈

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace玲sound of jewels奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

恵玲菜

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace玲sound of jewels菜vegetable, side dish, greens

Kanji spelling

恵玲那

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace玲sound of jewels那what?

Kanji spelling

恵鈴奈

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace鈴small bell, buzzer奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

恵麗菜

Characters and loaded glosses

恵favor, blessing, grace麗lovely, beautiful, graceful菜vegetable, side dish, greens

Kanji spelling

愛令奈

Characters and loaded glosses

愛love, affection, favourite令orders, laws, command奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

愛伶菜

Characters and loaded glosses

愛love, affection, favourite伶actor菜vegetable, side dish, greens

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 33. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.

How to read these meanings

The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.

Reading profile

How Erena is represented

These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.

Recorded kana readings2

えれな · エレナ

Kanji-based spellings31

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters3

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae3

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

Kana-only2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms29

recorded spellings

JMnedict classification evidence

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name

えれな in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms32

33 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 33

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
えれなErena	3233 source rows	female 33source rows · distinct forms: female 32	00 source rows
えれなErena	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	00 source rows

Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.

JMnedict source text

Source-supplied text attached to Erena records

JMnedict can attach trans_det text to a name-classification block. This may be a Latin spelling, label or descriptor. It is shown only when it adds information beyond this site’s generated romanization.

Written form	Source reading	JMnedict source text
エレナ	えれな	Elena

Meaning boundary: this is text supplied by JMnedict for the associated name-classification block. It is not an inferred kanji meaning, a translation of the written characters as a whole, proof of a person’s preferred Latin spelling, or evidence of popularity.

33 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Erena

This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data31

15–40 strokes observed span

Median total strokes28

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms30

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
えれな	Erena	3	33

Recurring first-position kanji

恵favor, blessing7 forms 愛love, affection4 forms 絵picture, drawing4 forms 英England, English4 forms 江creek, inlet3 forms 衣garment, clothes2 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

奈Nara, what?22 forms菜vegetable, side dish6 forms 那what?2 forms叶grant, answer1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

玲奈6 analyzed forms 怜奈5 analyzed forms 怜菜3 analyzed forms 恵玲3 analyzed forms 令奈3 analyzed forms 澪奈2 analyzed forms

Shown only when the same adjacent two-kanji sequence occurs in at least two analyzed source forms. Open a sequence in Kanji Pair Research for corpus co-occurrence context.

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

2 of 33 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.

Written forms checked33

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings2

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading30

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set6

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

英奈

6 source-recorded readings

Akinaあきな Ayanaあやな Einaえいな EnaえなErenaえれな · this pageHanaはな

絵玲奈

2 source-recorded readings

ErinaえりなErenaえれな · this page

A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Erena spellings

Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.

Kanji	Character glosses	Forms	First	Final	Internal	Strokes	KANJIDIC2 nanori	Loaded class
奈	Nara, what?	22	0	22	0	8	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
怜	wise	8	0	0	8	8	さと, さとし	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
玲	sound of jewels	8	0	0	8	9	たま, あきら, あき, りょう +1	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
恵	favor, blessing, grace	7	7	0	0	10	あや, け, さと, さとし +4	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
菜	vegetable, side dish, greens	6	0	6	0	11	よう	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
愛	love, affection, favourite	4	4	0	0	13	あ, あし, え, かな +5	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
令	orders, laws, command	4	0	0	4	5	のり, りょう, れ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
絵	picture, drawing, painting	4	4	0	0	12	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
英	England, English, hero	4	4	0	0	8	あ, あい, え, すぐる +5	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
麗	lovely, beautiful, graceful	3	0	0	3	19	ま, よし, り	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
江	creek, inlet, bay	3	3	0	0	6	くん, とうみ, み, りえ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
澪	water route, shipping channel	2	0	0	2	16	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9

Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.

Exact writing research map

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

These relationships are exact and source-backed. Whole-name readings shown in each card come from JMnedict within the current name class; exact-writing search can surface records from other name classes. Character links open KANJIDIC2-backed kanji pages. Sequence context means the same kanji string occurs contiguously in another recorded written form—it does not prove shared origin or meaning.

Exact written form

エレナ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな

Characters in order

エKanaレKanaナKana

Exact written form

えれな

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

えKanaれKanaなKana

Exact written form

依怜奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

依reliant, depend on怜wise奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

恵怜菜

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing怜wise菜vegetable, side dish

Exact written form

恵澪奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing澪water route, shipping channel奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

恵玲奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing玲sound of jewels奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

恵玲菜

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing玲sound of jewels菜vegetable, side dish

Exact written form

恵玲那

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing玲sound of jewels那what?

Exact written form

恵鈴奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing鈴small bell, buzzer奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

恵麗菜

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Erenaえれな · this page

Characters in order

恵favor, blessing麗lovely, beautiful菜vegetable, side dish

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 33. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Erena spellings

Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.

奈Nara, what?22 of 33 analyzed forms怜wise8 of 33 analyzed forms 玲sound of jewels8 of 33 analyzed forms 恵favor, blessing, grace7 of 33 analyzed forms 菜vegetable, side dish, greens6 of 33 analyzed forms 愛love, affection, favourite4 of 33 analyzed forms 令orders, laws, command4 of 33 analyzed forms 絵picture, drawing, painting4 of 33 analyzed forms 英England, English, hero4 of 33 analyzed forms 麗lovely, beautiful, graceful3 of 33 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Erena

33 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading えれな. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.

エレナ

エレナ · Erena

Katakana エレナMorae 3Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

Character-set checkKana spelling

Erena

Extended source depth

How to read Erena

What can Erena mean?

エレナ

えれな

依怜奈

恵怜菜

恵澪奈

恵玲奈

恵玲菜

恵玲那

恵鈴奈

恵麗菜

愛令奈

愛伶菜

How to read these meanings

How Erena is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Erena records

Corpus structure behind Erena

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Erena spellings

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

エレナ

えれな

依怜奈

恵怜菜

恵澪奈

恵玲奈

恵玲菜

恵玲那

恵鈴奈

恵麗菜

Kanji recurring across Erena spellings

Explore written forms of Erena

エレナ

えれな

依怜奈

恵怜菜

恵澪奈

恵玲奈

恵玲菜

恵玲那

恵鈴奈

恵麗菜

愛令奈

愛伶菜

愛怜菜

愛玲奈

慧怜奈

江怜奈

江玲奈

江礼奈

笑叶

絵怜奈

絵玲奈

絵礼奈

絵麗奈

英令奈

英奈

英怜奈

英玲奈

衛玲奈

衣怜菜

衣澪奈

詠麗奈

鋭令奈

頴令那

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What does Erena mean?

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