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HelpRe: Top 50 girls' names used in the late Edo period in Japan - WDYT?
in reply to a message by m4yb3_daijirou
I seem to remember someone telling me that -ko names were historically for Imperial family only, so maybe this list predates them coming into common use?
Nice to see historical Japanese names though - don't think we've had anything like this posted before. Quite a few of them are familiar to me as still in use, like Hana & Chiyo & Chise & Yuki & Misa, but there are lots I've never seen before, e.g. Uta as a name. Do you know which ones aren't used any more?
Nice to see historical Japanese names though - don't think we've had anything like this posted before. Quite a few of them are familiar to me as still in use, like Hana & Chiyo & Chise & Yuki & Misa, but there are lots I've never seen before, e.g. Uta as a name. Do you know which ones aren't used any more?
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Well, most of the women that are on these passenger lists had their names written in kana with most of them in katakana and some in hiragana, so I'll split up the list into three to see which names are still used in kanji, kana or both. Based on comparisons with the full list from 2003 provided by namaejiten.com:
KANJI:
Kiku, Yasu, Toyo, Kiyo, Mine (1 & 2 kanji), Sono, Sumi (1 & 2 kanji), Waka, Koto (1 & 2 kanji), Tama
KANA:
Tsuru
BOTH:
Haru, Natsu, Yuki, Chiyo (2 kanji, obviously), Tami (2 kanji), Chise (2 kanji, obviously), Hana (1 & 2 kanji), Chika (2 kanji), Misa (1 & 2 kanji), Uta
So around half of all the names in the top 50 were still usable by 2003 in one way or another.
KANJI:
Kiku, Yasu, Toyo, Kiyo, Mine (1 & 2 kanji), Sono, Sumi (1 & 2 kanji), Waka, Koto (1 & 2 kanji), Tama
KANA:
Tsuru
BOTH:
Haru, Natsu, Yuki, Chiyo (2 kanji, obviously), Tami (2 kanji), Chise (2 kanji, obviously), Hana (1 & 2 kanji), Chika (2 kanji), Misa (1 & 2 kanji), Uta
So around half of all the names in the top 50 were still usable by 2003 in one way or another.
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