Can anybody help me find some Japanese names?

Question

The thing is that I'm writing a story with my friend, so I need some help finding names for the characters. It would be better if the names were associated with elements. e.g. water, light, dark.

I will also need their kanji just in case. Oh, and I'm completely clueless on what surname to choose by the way. ^_^'

Thanks in advance for anybody that chooses to help and anybody who even bothered reading about my problem.

Answer 1

This site offers real students names and meanings (both first and last names)

Answer 2

Women's names -- Seiko, Sachiko, Sayaka, Yoko, Yumiko, Rie, Hitomi, Harumi, Hiroko, Yukiko, Naomi, Noriko, Yukie, Machiko, Mayumi, Kaori, Kumiko, Keiko

Men's names -- Takuya, Daisuke, Hirotaka, Toshihiro, Toshio, Takahiro, Yuusuke, Kazuya, Akira, Yutaka, Masahiro, Masaaki, Yuya, Kei, Ichiro, Kentaro, Kenichi, Ryo, Ryuusuke

Surnames -- Tanaka, Suzuki, Sasaki, Takahashi, Adachi, Ogawa, Abe, Watanabe, Hoshi, Murayama, Nakata, Nakamura, Kikuchi, Terada, Doi, Ishikawa, Nishikawa, Nakanishi, Matsuzaka, Matsunaka, Hashimoto, Yamamoto, Yamamura, Yamato

Hope these help ...

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Answer 3

The advanced search engine on this site is particularly helpful when looking for names from a certain nationality that mean a specific thing.

Answer 4

Here are Japanese names with their meaning (no kanji though):
http://www.babynameguide.com/categoryjapanese.asp?strCat=Japanese

And here are the Top 10 Japanese Surnames:
http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa051403a.htm

Good luck!

Answer 5

i know one !
Asami...
it means Glory.


surnames? Murakami, Tsutsumi, Yamamoto, Fujimori....