#dr names

[theidioticspirit]

DR First Name Ideas!

Fem First Names:

Alexandra

Anastasia

Arabella

Aurora

Clover

Everly

Euphoria

Julia/Juliet

June/Juniper

Lucile/Lucy

Mary

Maria

Olivia

Soliel

Victoria

Willow

Gender Neutral First Names:

Auden

Andy

Carter

Charlie

Casey

Jamie

Kendal

Morgan

Payton

Spencer

Sage

Masculine First Names: Aaron

Andre

Calum

George

Ezra

Finn

James

Jack

Levi

Liam

Louis

Pluto

Robin

Thomas/Tom

[shifting-lark]

okay bby but like one question

why did you decide on “normandy” as a dr last name? like is it a character’s last name or an existing one like mine? or do you just like it

Okay so funny story for my DR names!!! (Not really I just think it’s interesting)

Lark and Penelope, I’ve always adored those names. Not sure why but ever since I was like 13 I’ve had those in my back pocket (and lowkey they’ll probably be used for my kids names) So those two were just natural.

Lark’s last name Normandy just sounds badass and I went through A TON of last names (generators and stuff online) and that one just stuck with me.

Penelope’s last name McLain may or may not be my CR last name... possibly my future CR last name........... but I’m not confirming or denying that.... 😉

And as for Kyler Valhorn, totally just made that one up forever ago when I created the character as an OC 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ like the sound of it

[shiftingshiftingshifting]

i just realized that all of my dr names are just variants of my own

rose amidala (or last name)

briar-rose prewett

rosalie tarth

[jinjojess]

Wait, if Mukuro's the only one with a perfect ten on the Dumb Names Index™, what's Santa's rank then? (I will never be able to get over the way he writes Santa)

Shikiba Santa is a 9.8, scraping by from being a perfect ten by the fact that both Shikiba and Santa are actual names that exist.

[jinjojess]

HOLY SHIT

So we now know that Harukawa's birthday is February 2nd. Do you know what happens right after that? Setsubun. i.e., the day when you throw beans (mamemaki) at demons to drive them off for the coming spring (Yes, technically it is oni and not akuma but try to tell me this wasn't intentional.)

[jinjojess]

What does the kanji for Kazuichi Souda translate too? I'm curious about the names and he's my favorite charcter

Haha, Souda’s name is pretty interesting actually.

His family name, 左右田, is literally “left right rice field” while his given name, 和一, means “peaceful/Japanese one”. Kazuichi is a normal boy’s name and is often written with those kanji, and Souda (with those kanji) has been the name of various famous people, like a Meiji Era economist and a TV actor who worked from the 60s up through a few years ago, etc.

[jinjojess]

Minor PSA

I’m seeing this going around again and I need to clear it up:

“Ikusaba” does not mean “battlefield”. It means “battle/war blade/knife/sword”.

The word for battlefield is “senjou” and it is written like this: 戦場.

The first character is indeed the same as Ikusaba, meaning “war” or “battle”, but because it is part of a compound noun rather than a stupid made-up name, you read it with the onyomi (Chinese) reading.

The second character can be read as “ba” in certain contexts where it uses kunyomi (Japanese reading)--like “basho” (place) for instance--but in the word “battlefield” it’s pronounced “jou”.

So you could maybe make the case that イクサバ could be written as 戦場 which would be the same characters as “battlefield” but not the same pronunciation, but it’s hardly the main intended meaning (if it were, Kodaka would have just made her name be written 戦場). I’m not sure how many average Japanese fans would even think about the name long enough to be like “oh well if you read the first kanji with onyomi instead and changed the second one to a totally different kanji where the kunyomi is the same as the onyomi for ‘yaiba’, then it would be written like ‘senjou’!”

Like it’s kind of a neat coincidence and maybe Kodaka did put that much thought into it, but the primary translation of Mukuro’s stupid last name should not be “battlefield”. Knives and blades are featured way too prominently in all of her appearances for that 刃 part to be dropped in favor of a really convoluted pun that may or may not have even been intended in the first place.

Basically: the blade/knife/sword part is important, guys. Please stop leaving it out.

[jinjojess]

Since you mentioned they exist, what are the rules in Japan for naming your kids?

There’s a database of kanji considered acceptable to use in baby names, that’s actually split into two parts: the “jinmeiyou” kanji (kanji for people’s names), and the “jouyou” kanji (regularly used kanji that are also considered acceptable).

When you have a baby and give them a name, you have to register that name with Ministry of Justice so it can be added to your family register, and sometimes the government will reject a name if it’s considered inappropriate (I seem to remember a recent news story about a woman who found out the name she wanted to give her daughter was an older slang word for a stillbirth or something).

In the last few years there’s been a rise in what they call “Kirakira” Names (or Sparkle Names) which include things like naming your kid a foreign name for the hell of it, or naming them after a character, or just using silly, meaningful kanji to make a name that sounds like something else (often a foreign word like “Light” or whatever).

So basically, over half of the entire DR cast across all games, anime, novels, manga, etc. have Kirakira Names.