Japanese Names

1. AI meaning "love" (愛藍) - Japanese girl name.
2. AIKA meaning "love song" (愛佳) - Japanese girl name.
3. AIKO meaning "child of love" (愛子) - Japanese girl name.
4. AIMI meaning "love beautiful" (愛美) - Japanese girl name.
5. AINA meaning "love vegetables" (愛菜) - Japanese girl name.
6. AIRI meaning "love jasmine" (愛莉) - Japanese girl name.
7. AKANE meaning "brilliant red" (茜) - Japanese girl name.
8. AKEMI meaning "bright beautiful" (明美) - Japanese girl name.
9. AKI meaning "bright / autumn" (明 / 秋) - Japanese unisex name.

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Common Japanese Surnames

1. Sato meaning "help wisteria" (佐藤)
2. Suzuki meaning "small bell tree" (鈴木)
3. Takahashi meaning "tall bridge" (高橋)
4. Tanaka meaning "rice field middle" (田中)
5. Watanabe meaning "cross boundary" (渡辺)
6. Ito meaning "that wisteria" (伊藤)
7. Yamamoto meaning "mountain true" (山本)
8. Nakamura meaning "in a village" (中村)
9. Ohayashi meaning "small forest" (小林)
10. Kobayashi meaning "small forest" (小林)
11. Kato meaning "increase wisteria" (加藤)
12. Kichida meaning "joy rice field" (吉田)
13. Yoshida meaning "joy rice field" (吉田)
14. Yamada meaning "mountain rice field" (山田)
15. Sasaki meaning "help tree" (佐々木)

          I always wanted to know Japanese names and their meanings for some reason so I looked up some names. In the writing there are symbols and the names actually mean something. I found some of these name meanings interesting and I was thinking about branding and how some companies use the play on words to create their own image and name. If parents were naming a baby a Japanese name this would be helpful to known what the child's name actually means in Japanese. I had no idea that last names weren't common among Samurai and noblemen in the past. There are actually two kanji symbols that make up a surname and that I didn't know. Kanji I learned before is these Japanese's characters and its common to refer to someone from their last name