group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings13 Source spelling/reading rows13 Coverage levelExtended
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.
records contributing to this reading group
based only on the imported source footprint
Pronunciation & romanization
How to read Iyona
The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.
Normalized to hiragana for comparison.
The same reading converted to katakana.
Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Iyona. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
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 Iyona 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 “Iyona”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
いよな
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よKana characterなKana character
Kanji spelling
一夜
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
伊世奈
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
伊世茄
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
伊代菜
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
伊代那
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
Kanji spelling
唯世奈
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
唯代奈
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
弥奈
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
意世那
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
Kanji spelling
意代那
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
Kanji spelling
維与那
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
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 13. 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 Iyona 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.
いよな
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
recorded spellings
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.
いよな in the imported JMnedict corpus
13 source spelling/reading rows
0 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| いよなIyona | 1313 source rows | female 13source rows · distinct forms: female 13 | 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.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Iyona
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.
9–25 strokes observed span
among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data
all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes
contains at least one character outside that loaded classification
| Reading | Romanization | Morae | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| いよな | Iyona | 3 | 13 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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 13 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.
distinct spellings displayed on this page
exact written forms with 2+ source readings
within this active given-name corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
一夜
弥奈
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 Iyona 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 | Solo | Strokes | KANJIDIC2 nanori | Loaded class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 奈 | Nara, what? | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 代 | substitute, change, convert | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | す | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 伊 | Italy, that one | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | これ, ただ, よし, いと +1 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 世 | generation, world, society | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | とし, ゆ, ゆき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 那 | what? | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | とも, やす | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 唯 | solely, only, merely | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ゆ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 意 | idea, mind, heart | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | もと, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 一 | one, one radical (no.1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | かず, い, いっ, いる +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 夜 | night, evening | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 茄 | eggplant | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | な, か, なす | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 菜 | vegetable, side dish, greens | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 弥 | all the more, increasingly | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | わたる, みつ, ひろ, よ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
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
いよな
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
いKanaよKanaなKana
Exact written form
一夜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 一夜 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
伊世奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
伊世茄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
伊代菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
伊代那
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
唯世奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
唯代奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
弥奈
Characters in order
Exact written form
意世那
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Iyonaいよな · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 13. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Iyona 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 Iyona
13 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading いよな. 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.
いよな
いよな · Iyona
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
一夜
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
伊世奈
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
伊世茄
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
伊代菜
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
伊代那
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
唯世奈
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
唯代奈
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
弥奈
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
意世那
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
意代那
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
維与那
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
衣代奈
いよな · Iyona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Iyona 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.
| Spelling | One source reading | Character-level glosses | Total strokes | Loaded character class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| いよな | いよな | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 一夜 | いよな | 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 夜 — night, evening | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊世奈 | いよな | 伊 — Italy, that one · 世 — generation, world · 奈 — Nara, what? | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊世茄 | いよな | 伊 — Italy, that one · 世 — generation, world · 茄 — eggplant | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊代菜 | いよな | 伊 — Italy, that one · 代 — substitute, change · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊代那 | いよな | 伊 — Italy, that one · 代 — substitute, change · 那 — what? | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 唯世奈 | いよな | 唯 — solely, only · 世 — generation, world · 奈 — Nara, what? | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 唯代奈 | いよな | 唯 — solely, only · 代 — substitute, change · 奈 — Nara, what? | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 弥奈 | いよな | 弥 — all the more, increasingly · 奈 — Nara, what? | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 意世那 | いよな | 意 — idea, mind · 世 — generation, world · 那 — what? | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 意代那 | いよな | 意 — idea, mind · 代 — substitute, change · 那 — what? | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 維与那 | いよな | 維 — fiber, tie · 与 — bestow, participate in · 那 — what? | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 衣代奈 | いよな | 衣 — garment, clothes · 代 — substitute, change · 奈 — Nara, what? | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Iyona 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
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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.
Given name · female · limited reference
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56 recorded spellings
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46 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Iyona
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.
Given-name relationship
Iyo
一世代伊唯夜意
7 shared kanji · 30 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAina
一伊唯奈意茄那
7 shared kanji · 23 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIyoko
一世代伊夜意
6 shared kanji · 44 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIona
一伊唯奈意那
6 shared kanji · 15 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIkuyo
世代伊夜意
5 shared kanji · 102 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIsayo
世代伊夜意
5 shared kanji · 68 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipReina
伊唯奈意那
5 shared kanji · 37 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuina
伊唯奈意那
5 shared kanji · 34 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYui
一伊唯奈意
5 shared kanji · 29 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMīna
伊唯奈意那
5 shared kanji · 27 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNīna
伊唯奈茄那
5 shared kanji · 25 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSeina
世唯奈意那
5 shared kanji · 19 matching source-recorded spellings
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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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