Comments on: What Your Japanese Name?

By: Shazbot

Shazbot — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:51:45 +0000

坂本 Sakamoto (book of the hill) 美晴 Miharu (beautiful clear sky) is what i get if I put my first name first and last name last.

坂本 Sakamoto (book of the hill) 明日香 Asuka (fragrance of the bright day) is what I get if I put my last name first and first name last.

By: ZMAng

ZMAng — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:23:53 +0000

Yeah, I’m quite sure our names are different, lol. I think Elyscape is right, it probably considers the number of characters in your name and a few other variables.

By: Warukyure

Warukyure — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:32:41 +0000

This is messed up… if I put my last name then first name i get 猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 駿 Shun (fast person). If i switch it around i get 石丸 Ishimaru (round stone) 翼 Tsubasa (wing). I highly doubt that your name is similar to mine

By: Elyscape

Elyscape — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:38:21 +0000

I’m pretty sure that it takes some form of hash of your inputted name and gender, and then uses that to choose a value on a (rather limited) table of last and first names. That is to say, it’s nearly random, but you’ll always get the same result for the same input.