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maaya
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For the girls Mikoto, Yuna, Yui, Sakura, Mio, Yuri, Nagisa, Rin are completely normal and very common names in Japan (apart from nagisa I think all are even in the top 100 of most popular names.)
For guys Touma, Sousuke, Tomoya, Kyosuke and Kyo are very normal as well. So not a very spectacular list. |
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Tamaria
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My mom once told me that if The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had come out ten years ealier and she had played it, my name might have been Saria...
I sometimes name my pets after anime/manga/videogame characters. For instance, there's Puar (cat), Chibi-sama (a little red rabbit) and Teto (another rabbit). My only pet with a more serious name is Senka (another rabbit), and while that does have a meaning or two in Japanese, I don't think any Japanese parents would name their kid Senka 
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TatsuGero23
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There's a Sousuke in Naruto? You mean Sasuke? Sasuke has its own pop culture link to ninjas in general long before Naruto. So most people won't think "oh Naruto" but rather "oh, he's a ninja". Sasuke is a fairly uncommon name. I'm use to unique names. I know a "Early", "Second", "Third" (and yes, Second and Third are brothers), "Able", "Sasha", "Song", "Melody", "Sunny" (with a U), "Star", "Ruby", "Eden" and my Aunt's first 3 boys have the same intials; S.T.X. The last 4th boy got away with I.M.X. But yeah, I probably wouldn't name my boy "Cloud". Maybe "Sky" or "Skyler" but not Cloud. "Sora" would be iffy. Probably stick to the english version. And asides for Nanoha, all the girl names sound fairly reasonable. I could actually use "Yuna", "Yui", and "Mio". Might offend family if I used the others. I'm also tempted to name my boy "Godzilla". How awesome would that be? I hope he grows up to be a football player. |
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vashfanatic
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After Dr. Zhivago came out, there was an upsurge in the number of girls named Lara, and the names of soap opera characters often influence what people name their children. To me, this isn't all that different. As noted, most of these are perfectly normal names in Japan, and the main reasons I'm surprised to see "Cloud" is that it's a mouthful in Japanese.
That said, I love that half of the respondents basically said that this question was nuts. I think that's probably right; most people don't (at least consciously) pick a name based off a character in any medium. **disclaimer: I would totally name a girl Danaerys (Dany for short) or Eowyn, so my opinion is perhaps skewed. 
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Tamaria
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Jyu-oh-sei!
Sasha isn't that unusual, neither is Ruby. I know a kid named Pino. Pino is what they call Bigbird in Dutch... |
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WatchforMoons7
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Cloud....
Sora = girl name? Sousuke, Touma, Yuri and Kyo(suke?) don't seem bad. They're already used enough? Or maybe they just sound cool and that's it,, they aren't commonly used? I'm open to enlightenment. Mikoto and Yui seem fine. The rest, mmmmm.  That's all I feel is 'mmm".
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Aura Ichadora
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Some of those actually aren't too bad. I knew Sakura was going to be on there - I called it before I clicked on the article.
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Mohawk52
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I always thought the names were just common names that some in Japan would actually be called, so what's the problem anyway? I wouldn't christen a child, that wasn't Japanese in any way, a Japanese name for the sake of my hobby, that would be cruel.
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matthewlow
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My brother was going to name his daughter Kagome as a practical joke. I got mad, so it ended up being her middle name, again as a practical joke. Of course, he decides to get another anime based name for her first name...
Kira Yeah, I wonder what's going to happen once she finds out. |
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Thunderbird-
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What is it with people naming their kids Yuri. Don't they know what that means, or does it secretly mean something else as well.
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PetrifiedJello
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Yuri's a very common name throughout the world. I seriously doubt someone's going to walk up to the person and go "There's not enough of you in anime." |
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GenericHero
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As of this writing I am hellbent on naming my daughter Kallen from Code Geass. Just sayin
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maaya
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Kira is not necessarily anime based. It's used in Japan, but also in a lot of other countries (popular variant is Keira, as in Keira Knightley). Definitely a much better choice than Kagome, which is not even a real name in real life Japan (and therefore really a joke). But maybe don't tell him about Kira, else he might search for a new punishment if the child is not yet born o.o; Last edited by maaya on Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:59 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Wooga
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Lily, it means lily.... "Yuri", the genre of anime/manga focusing on lesbian characters, became called that because a character named Yuri often showed up, (something to do with calling lesbians in Japan "The Lily Tribe") |
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Senna
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I might use a Japanese middle name for a child (not necessarily anime-related); I think the first names will be based on biblical or literary characters though.
I knew a guy named Cloud. I met him at a costume party on Halloween, and he was dressed as Cloud from FF7 (he really fit the part too). So when he introduced himself as Cloud, my friend and I were like, We know you're supposed to be Cloud, but what's *your* name? Of course, he was born before FF7 existed. (And yes, his name really was Cloud; at least, that's how he was listed in the school directory.) |
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