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Japanese-English Dictionary of Proper Nouns

We maintain the world's largest Japanese-English bilingual bidirectional databases of proper nouns. These are used by some of the world major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, including:

  • machine translation (MT)
  • information retrieval (IR)
  • morphological analysis (MA)
  • electronic dictionaries (ED)
  • input method editors (IME)
  • named entity recognition (NER)

See also our Comprehensive Database of Japanese Name Variants, which contains millions of name variants.

Coverage

Currently coverage is 1.4 million entries, as shown below:

Type Quantity
Japanese surnames 153,000
Japanese given names 400,000
Japanese and Western place names 200,000
Western personal names 50,000
Companies/organizations 600,000
Famous people 30,000

These include various attributes such as readings in hiragana and several romanization systems, semantic classification codes and frequency rankings.

Field Description

Field Name Description
ID Preceded by the following prefixes:
S Surname
G Given name
P Place name
Rank Relative frequency ranking based on occurrences in various sources.
Type The main type codes are shown below. For a more detailed list, click here.

F Female given name
G Given name (first name, male or female)
M Male given name
S Surname
Name Japanese name in kanji/kana
Reading Reading in hiragana
English English equivalent based on Hepburn romanization. Available in eight different romanization systems described at Japanese name variants.
Sample of Given Names
IDRANKTYPENAMEREADINGENGLISH
G030000000521M卯太郎うたろうUtaro
G045000037988FM加名見かなみKanami
G052500037988M海修かいしゅうKaishu
G067500009317F季絵きえKie
G115824000521M光喜こうきKoki
G120000037988M好洋こうようKoyo
G122581089487M幸喜さちきSachiki
G122582089487M幸喜ゆきのぶYukinobu
G122583082511M幸喜ゆきよしYukiyoshi
G122584003085M幸喜こうきKoki
G125570089487M弘輝ひろてるHiroteru
G125571037988M弘輝こうきKoki
G125812037988M弘樹こうきKoki
G125813025198M弘樹こうじゅKoju
G125816001693M弘樹ひろきHiroki
G180000037988M舜寛しゅんかんShunkan
G217500025198M政武まさたけMasatake
G315000037988M文朝ぶんちょうBuncho
G345000003606M勇一郎ゆういちろうYuichiro
G362356005062F里見さとみSatomi
G362686032653F里美りみRimi
G362687005062FM里美さとみSatomi
G362688089487M里美さとよしSatoyoshi
G362689089487F里美りびRibi
G387558082511FMつばさTsubasa
G387559373844FなつるNatsuru
G387560373844FやすらYasura
G387561011693FMしょうSho
G387562015336MかけるKakeru
G387563373844MめぐるMeguru


Sample of Surnames
IDRANKTYPENAMEREADINGENGLISH
S105000036072S永福ながふくNagafuku
S020000018269S歌沢うたざわUtazawa
S040000036072S鎌垣かまがきKamagaki
S007500018269S蟻原ありばらAribara
S045000027721S久和きゅうわKyuwa
S113630036072S橋瓜はしづめHashizume
S113625027721S橋詰はしつめHashitsume
S113631011691S橋詰はしづめHashizume
S113626027721S橋爪はしつめHashitsume
S113632011691S橋爪はしづめHashizume
S113634027721S橋誥はしづめHashizume
S055000023105S玄永げんえいGen'ei
S055601022164S幸喜こうきKoki
S061174049291S幸喜こんきKonki
S148096047919S幸喜ゆきよしYukiyoshi
S057500018269S国場こくばKokuba
S120000011691S七條しちじょうShichijo
S140000036072S宗沢むねざわMunezawa
S125000036072S舟原ふなばらFunabara
S037500036072S勝木かつぎKatsugi
S122500000846S深田ふかだFukada
S135000027721S水書みずがきMizugaki
S052500011691S倉尾くらおKurao
S090000010362S代田だいたDaita
S027500049291S大東おおひがしOhigashi
S113593049291S端詰はしづめHashizume
S010000001453S池野いけのIkeno
S087500010362S田戸たとTato
S102500000949S土橋どばしDobashi
S066143001145S里見さとみSatomi
S066146036072S里美さとみSatomi