What's Your Japanese Name?

You answer 5 short personality questions — season, landscape, color, animal, and a word that describes you. Each option maps to one of five trait dimensions: nature, strength, wisdom, joy, and calm. The dimension you pick most often determines your Japanese name. If two dimensions tie, the result resolves in a fixed order: nature, strength, wisdom, joy, calm.

Yes. Every name returned by the quiz is a real Japanese given name with a documented kanji writing and meaning. 桜 Sakura, 陽菜 Hina, 静香 Shizuka, and 勇気 Yuuki are all common names you can find in modern Japan. The alternates (凪, 蓮, 智, 笑, 鷹, and others) are also genuine names — some traditional, some popular among younger generations.

Japanese people generally do not adopt a "Japanese name" as their legal name unless they naturalise as Japanese citizens. But it is common and culturally accepted for foreigners studying or living in Japan to pick a Japanese name as a nickname, pen name, or social handle — especially for casual contexts. Treat your quiz result as a fun nickname, not as a legal identity. If you want the closest phonetic spelling of your real name in Japanese script, use the My Name in Japanese converter linked below.

A name converter takes your real English name and writes it in Japanese script — Michael becomes マイケル, Sarah becomes サラ. The Japanese name itself is just your English name spelled out phonetically in katakana. This quiz instead gives you a brand new Japanese name based on your personality answers. Use the converter if you want your actual name in Japanese letters; use the quiz if you want a meaningful Japanese name picked for the personality you described.

Yes. The result screen includes share buttons for Twitter and Facebook, plus a copy-link button. The share buttons post a link back to this quiz page so your friends can take it too. Your specific result is not encoded into the link — each person who clicks gets their own personality-based name. Screenshot the result page if you want to share the exact kanji you got.

The quiz is gender-neutral by design, but in practice some of the names lean traditionally to one or the other. 桜 Sakura, 陽菜 Hina, 静香 Shizuka, and 穂乃花 Honoka are typically used as feminine names; 勇気 Yuuki, 武 Takeshi, 鷹 Taka, 賢 Kashiko, and 哲 Tetsu are typically used as masculine names. Names like 凪 Nagi, 蓮 Ren, 智 Tomo, and 楽 Raku are commonly used for any gender. Re-take the quiz with different answers if you want a different result, or use it as a starting point and adapt the kanji to suit your preference.