Well, my neighborhood is a Hori. Or as my ARC says anyhow. It might be a name, although I honestly haven't run across it.

Not a clue. I have not heard of that one.

I like:
Noa
Sora
Sayuri
Reina
Yoshi
Yuki
Aiko
Yui

Can "Akira" be also used as a female name?

BTW "Yuuya" is great ^.^

Could be. Would be VERY rare, though. There used to be an actress whose given name was Akira. In real life, however, I can't say I've ever met or heard of a woman with that name.
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It's actually pretty lame discussing Japanese names using the alphabet. "Akira" can be written in so many ways in Japanese, and so can any other name.

Oh, thanks.. few my friends tell that it´s used as female name, it´s why I asked :) It´s fine to know this straight from somebody from Japan :)

i like;
boys; rikimaru,abd allah
girls; fatema,ayamy
good luck:ywave:

I notice people often give a list of names from that babyname site- they should be aware that a lot of those names are never used in Japan, and a lot of anime names are not ordinary either. From a quick look through this thread, suggestions offered for names that you will never meet a Japanese person with were: Ichigo (means strawberry!), Zakuro (pomegranate), Sushi (do you really think a Japanese person would call their child Sushi??!), Suzuki (this is a common family name, never a first name), Kagami (means mirror), Cho (one meaning of this word is "intestines"! Obviously no-one would give this name to their child), Wattan (I'm not sure if this is supposed to have a meaning, but there is no Japanese girl with this name and it sounds awful), Hachi (means bee), Mizu (means water, is not a name), Botan (as a boy's name even! Botan is a kind of flower and would never be a boy's name- it would be odd enough as a girl's name), Inari (rice), Amarante (this is definitely not a Japanese name), Hotaru (firefly), Kagome (the name of a well-known company in Japan that makes juice) and on and on.

Someone suggested that Tomoko and Seiko could be names for boys or girls- those are very girly names, like calling a boy Sarah or Victoria- just unthinkable. Anyone wanting to give their child a Japanese name, please check very carefully first to make sure the name is actually acceptable in Japan, or the child would be a laughing stock if he or she ever came here.

What are the less used or unique Japanese names? Can one give a sample?