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I've been doing some research about the name Shinobu. Though in many anime the name Shinobu has been given to female characters. It is a unisex japanese name. I have seen on many name sites it being listed as female as well. I've done research on wiki and they have a long list of japanese men with the name Shinobu.
Here are a few examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaguchi_Shinobu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orikuchi_Shinobu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Satouchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Amayake
Here are a few examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaguchi_Shinobu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orikuchi_Shinobu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Satouchi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobu_Amayake
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I read that it was a girl's name on a name site. This is the first time I have seen it as a boy's name. Though I did look at you wiki links! I saw that Shinobu Asagoe, Shinobu Otake and Shinobu Nakayama are mentioned on Wikipedia as well and they are all girls...so I think it is like you said, it is unisex. Because both male and REAL life female girls (not just in Mangas and Animes) are being named Shinobu in Japan. Kind of like Yuki and Momiji (though I don't think Momiji is common and Yuki I found to be commonly used with other letters to denote a girl or boy like Yukio and Yukiko).
-Niamh Belle
-Niamh Belle
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-Niamh Belle
This message was edited 3/18/2007, 11:27 PM
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