The Most Popular Anime Names To Give Children

By Ishaan . August 14, 2010 . 4:40pm

The Most Popular Anime Names To Give Children

This past week, Dengeki ran a poll to ask readers their favourite anime characters to name their children after. While over half of the readers that participated thought the idea of naming your kid after an anime character was outrageous, the rest went right ahead and named their favourites, both male and female.

 

Female:

 

RankCharacterSeries
1.MikotoToaru Majutsu no Index
2.YunaFinal Fantasy X
3.NanohaMagical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
4.YuiK-ON!
5.SakuraCard Captor Sakura
6.MioK-ON!
7.YuriAngel Beats!
8.NagisaClannad
9.RinFate/stay Night
10.ShikiKara no Kyoukai

 

Male:

 

RankCharacterSeries
1.ToumaToaru Majutsu no Index
2.SoraKingdom Hearts
3.CloudFinal Fantasy VII
4.HayateHayate the Combat Butler
5.SousukeFull Metal Panic!
6.TomoyaClannad
7.KoyomiBakemonogatari
8.YuriTales of Vesperia
9.KyousukeLittle Busters!
10.KyoThe King of Fighters





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  • http://several-hours-into-the-game.blogspot.com/ Nika

    Cloud is both surprising and unsurprising in my eyes. I understand that many people like the character, and I admit the name sounds sorta cool, but actually naming your child that way… No.

    I like Hayate. But I was actually… sort of… considering it for my dog ^-^;;

  • Aoshi00

    yea, they probably like the sound of Seiya, but “star arrow” would be too strange :)

  • http://twitter.com/MythosEngineer Terr

    @Feynman My niece’s name is Cloud…

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, Adolph Joffe was the man! He deserves a namesake… Where’s Trotmeister when I need him???

    But what Hitler R-E-A-L-L-Y ruined was the Toothbrush moustache… Could anybody pull that look off nowadays???

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllenSmithee Samuel Smithee Bateman

    It’s kinda like how I like the names Saied and Rahul, but people might think of it as weird of a purely Canadian man to give his kid a name from the middle east.

    Just like how after I watched my brother play Xenosaga, I looked up more info on the ESs and found they are the twelve tribes of Israel. Considering my name comes from the bible (and/or LoTR, haha) and my father has Jewish heritage on his mother’s side, it could be quite suitable. After all, a lot of the names aren’t used very much, but Joseph and Benjamin is. So what about Asher, Issachar and such? But I think people might think of that as strange.

    Another weird name that I wouldn’t mind would be something like Samulus. So that way my son could be Samulus son of Samwise. That’d be bad-ass.

    If you’re famous though, you can get away with anything. If I were famous and I have three boys I shall name them Bruce Wayne Bateman, Señor Dracula Bateman, and The Maxx Expendable Bateman. Girls? Arcee Mastermind Bateman, Commissioner GaGa Bateman, and Sniper-Wolf Clairvoyance Bateman.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllenSmithee Samuel Smithee Bateman

    At least I didn’t go with Master Bateman, hahaha.

    Then again, going through with a character that you’ve looked up to and such, Optimus Prime would work, but that’d be too weird, I don’t think I could go through with it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AllenSmithee Samuel Smithee Bateman

    At least I didn’t go with Master Bateman, hahaha.

    Then again, going through with a character that you’ve looked up to and such, Optimus Prime would work, but that’d be too weird, I don’t think I could go through with it.

  • Anonymous

    My cat is called Quistis :D

  • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

    This reminds me of the scene from FMA with Roy cuddling Black Hayate, going “A cute doggy!” and telling everyone else how you can turn them into obedient slaves.

  • Exand

    I’m sure someone else must have mentioned this, but most of those names already existed before their anime counterparts took them…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommy-Lee/518924335 Tommy Lee

    Actually, they use the same characters. 百合

    Just for (everyone’s) clarity’s sake, you don’t call a lesbian “yuri” in Japanese. 百合 is just a jargon term for the “girls-love” genre.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommy-Lee/518924335 Tommy Lee

    If you look at the link in the article you’ll see Vesperia’s Yuri is in katakana, meaning it’s of foreign origin. The elongation symbol in his name is there to show that’s there’s an emphasis on the “u” sound in English and/or Russian, unlike “yu-ri” in which “yu” syllable would go by a little quicker. The gravure models you found are using hirigana for their names which means the names are of native origin.

    http://jisho.org/words?jap=&dict=enamdic&eng=Yuuri
    It’s also a mostly female list, but the entry at the top of page two uses characters that would be more common for a boy would have in his name.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know why but I can’t seem to reply to your comment, so you’ll have to excuse me for replying to my own.

    I have to confess I don’t really see what the point is in your pointing out that Yuri’s name is meant to be of foreign origin vs a native one; how is that supposed to affect the gender angle of the name? In fact I would say that having Yuuri spelt out in katakana would make the name even more genderless, since there wouldn’t be any kanji used that might make the name more masculine or feminine.

  • Anonymous

    Wat happened to Tifa…..FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • http://several-hours-into-the-game.blogspot.com/ Nika

    *geh* Hmmm, I should do my research more properly before I say something next time. Sorry.

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