Chihiro

Chihiro
Gender mostly female, rarely male
Origin
Word/name Japanese
Meaning It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Chihiro (ちひろ, チヒロ,千尋) is a Japanese given name mostly used for females. It is assigned less frequently to males.

Possible writings

Chihiro can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

  • 千尋, "thousand fathoms"
  • 千博, "thousand gains"
  • 千裕, "thousand, abundance"
  • 千紘, "thousand, large or huge"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana, such as ちひろ or チヒロ respectively.

People

  • Chihiro Fujioka (born 1959, 藤岡千尋), Japanese director
  • Chihiro Iwasaki (born 1918, いわさき ちひろ 岩崎 知弘), Japanese artist and illustrator
  • Chihiro Kameyama (born 1956, 亀山千尋), a Japanese businessman
  • Chihiro Kaneko (born 1983, 金子千尋), Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes
  • Chihiro Kato (born 1988, 加藤千尋), Japanese volleyball player
  • Chihiro Kawakami, a Japanese voice actress
  • Chihiro Kusaka (born 1956, 日下ちひろ), Japanese voice actor
  • Chihiro Minato (born 1960, 港千尋), Japanese photographer
  • Chihiro Onitsuka (born 1980, 鬼束ちひろ), Japanese singer-songwriter and pianist
  • Chihiro Otsuka (born 1986, 大塚ちひろ), Japanese actress
  • Chihiro Suzuki, (born 1977, 鈴木千尋), Japanese voice actor
  • Chihiro Yonekura (born 1972, 米倉千尋), Japanese singer

Fictional characters

See also

  • Sega Chihiro is an arcade system from Sega based on the architecture of the Xbox
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