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Japanese given name

Itona

いとな

Given-name classification varies across source records.

いとなイトナItona
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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 spellings12

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows12

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Itona

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いとな

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formイトナ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationItona

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

Mora segmentationい · と · な

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

Audio note: the play button uses Japanese text-to-speech provided by the visitor’s browser/device. It is a convenience preview, not a recorded native-speaker pronunciation or pitch-accent authority.

Meaning by written form

What can Itona 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 “Itona”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings11

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings1

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

いとな

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
いKana characterとKana characterなKana character
Kanji spelling

伊十奈

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
Kanji spelling

愛夏

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
Kanji spelling

愛女

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.

Kanji spelling

糸奈

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
Kanji spelling

糸菜

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
Kanji spelling

絃名

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.

Kanji spelling

絃奈

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.

Kanji spelling

絃菜

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.

Kanji spelling

絃那

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

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 Itona 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 readings1

いとな

Kanji-based spellings11

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-only1

recorded spelling

2-kanji forms8

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms3

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

いとな in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms12

12 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 11 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
いとなItona1212 source rowsfemale 11 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 11 · unspecified 100 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.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Itona

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 data11

14–25 strokes observed span

Median total strokes17

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms11

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

2 of 12 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 checked12

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings2

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading10

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set10

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

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 Itona 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.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
奈Nara, what?404008—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
絃string, cord, samisen music4400011—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
菜vegetable, side dish, greens3030011ようJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
愛love, affection, favourite2200013あ, あし, え, かな +5Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
糸thread220006—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
一one, one radical (no.1)110001かず, い, いっ, いる +7Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
刀sword, saber, knife100102き, ち, と, わきJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
伊Italy, that one110006これ, ただ, よし, いと +1Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
十ten100102い, か, ぎ, さ +8Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
夏summer1010010—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
女woman, female101003おな, た, つき, なJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
名name, noted, distinguished101006とJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1

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

いとな

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Itonaいとな · this page
Characters in order
いKanaとKanaなKana
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence

The exact sequence 愛夏 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 12. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Itona 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.

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Itona

12 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading いとな. 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.

いとな

いとな · Itona

Katakana イトナMorae 3Strokes —

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

Spelling comparator

Compare Itona forms side by side

Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
いとないとなKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
一刀菜いとな一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 刀 — sword, saber · 菜 — vegetable, side dish14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伊十奈いとな伊 — Italy, that one · 十 — ten · 奈 — Nara, what?16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
愛夏いとな愛 — love, affection · 夏 — summer23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
愛女いとな愛 — love, affection · 女 — woman, female16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
糸奈いとな糸 — thread · 奈 — Nara, what?14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
糸菜いとな糸 — thread · 菜 — vegetable, side dish17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
絃名いとな絃 — string, cord · 名 — name, noted17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
絃奈いとな絃 — string, cord · 奈 — Nara, what?19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
絃菜いとな絃 — string, cord · 菜 — vegetable, side dish22All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
絃那いとな絃 — string, cord · 那 — what?18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
衣都奈いとな衣 — garment, clothes · 都 — capital, metropolis · 奈 — Nara, what?25All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified

What does Itona mean?

There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.

Related readings

More names beginning with いと

Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Itona

These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.

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Where to go next from Itona

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

Evidence on this page

What each source establishes

JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.

Source boundary

The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.

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