About male japanese names
How male japanese names are built
This set assembles names from reading-fragments. A surname comes from a 399-entry bank, then the personal name is built per gender: men stack three fragments from a 55-entry male bank ("Nagai moronobuuchi" = Nagai + moro + nobu + uchi), women take a stem from a 242-entry bank plus one suffix from a 6-entry bank ("Mori Machime" = Mori + Machi + me).
Nagai moronobuuchi
Nagai (surname) + moro (male fragment) + nobu (male fragment) + uchi (male fragment)
Mori Machime
Mori (surname) + Machi (stem) + me (suffix)
Miura takekazuhide
Miura (surname) + take (male fragment) + kazu (male fragment) + hide (male fragment)
Naming notes
The construction, not whole-name lookup, is the distinctive part: the male pattern follows the surname with three concatenated fragments so personal names run long, while the female pattern ends the stem in one of just six suffixes (ko, shi, no, yo, me, mi). The surname bank (399) far outsizes the female stem and suffix banks (242 and 6), which keeps women's endings patterned.
Questions about male japanese names
- Why are the male personal names so long?
- The male pattern stacks three fragments from the 55-entry male bank after the surname, so the personal name is a compound of three pieces rather than one whole name.
- How are the female names built?
- The female pattern takes a stem from the 242-entry bank and one suffix from a 6-entry bank (ko, shi, no, yo, me, mi), as in Machi + me = Machime.
- What order are the parts in?
- Surname first, then the assembled personal name, matching the surname-first order the set uses.