Submitted Name
SaveGender Masculine & Feminine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 千空, 千加良, 力, 主税, 元良, 智空, 千夏良(Japanese Kanji) ちから(Japanese Hiragana) チカラ(Japanese Katakana)
[Meaning & History
As a unisex name, it can be used as 千空 or 千加良 with 千 (sen, chi) meaning "thousand," 空 (kuu, a.ku, a.keru, kara, su.ku, sora, muna.shii) meaning "empty, sky, vacant, vacuum, void," 加 (ka, kuwa.eru, kuwa.waru) meaning "add, include, join" and 良 (ryou, i.i, yo.i, ra) meaning "good, excellent."
As a masculine name, it can be used as 力, 主税, 元良, 智空 or 千夏良 with 力 (rii, riki, ryoku, chikara) meaning "exert, power, strength," 主 (shu, shuu, su, aruji, omo, nushi) meaning "chief, lord, master, principal," 税 (zei) meaning "duty, tax," 元 (gan, gen, moto, chika) meaning "beginning, origin, source" 智 (chi) meaning "intellect, wisdom" and 夏 (ka, ga, ge, natsu) meaning "summer."Regarding 主税, it is classified as a hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority, since it comes from the name of a ministry of popular affairs under the Ritsuryō system (主税寮/Shuzeiryō or Chikara no ryō). It may be related to 力 (chikara), which itself is made up of 霊 (chi/rei today) meaning "power, life force" and から (kara) meaning "from," in which tax comes along by means of the power of the people.One bearer of this name was Chikara Ōishi (大石 主税) (1688-1703), whose childhood name was Matsunojō (松之丞), the son of Kuranosuke Ōishi (leader of the 47 Rōnin) and one of the 47 Rōnin.
As a masculine name, it can be used as 力, 主税, 元良, 智空 or 千夏良 with 力 (rii, riki, ryoku, chikara) meaning "exert, power, strength," 主 (shu, shuu, su, aruji, omo, nushi) meaning "chief, lord, master, principal," 税 (zei) meaning "duty, tax," 元 (gan, gen, moto, chika) meaning "beginning, origin, source" 智 (chi) meaning "intellect, wisdom" and 夏 (ka, ga, ge, natsu) meaning "summer."Regarding 主税, it is classified as a hyakkanna (百官名), a court rank-style name that samurai used to announce oneself and give himself authority, since it comes from the name of a ministry of popular affairs under the Ritsuryō system (主税寮/Shuzeiryō or Chikara no ryō). It may be related to 力 (chikara), which itself is made up of 霊 (chi/rei today) meaning "power, life force" and から (kara) meaning "from," in which tax comes along by means of the power of the people.One bearer of this name was Chikara Ōishi (大石 主税) (1688-1703), whose childhood name was Matsunojō (松之丞), the son of Kuranosuke Ōishi (leader of the 47 Rōnin) and one of the 47 Rōnin.