Names in Kanji

Each name here is first written in katakana, the script Japanese uses for foreign words, and then matched syllable by syllable to kanji chosen only from the 2,999 Jinmeiyō kanji the Japanese Ministry of Justice approves for personal names. That is why every reading on this site is a name a person could legally be given in Japan — not a decorative lookalike.

Open a name to see what each character means, how many strokes it takes, and how the stroke counts fall into the five grids of Seimei Handan, the traditional Japanese name-fortune reading.