Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
元
“head”
元 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hajime.
Meaning & origin
元’s family of names
In Chinese usage, 元 shares a linguistic root with the Japanese form 円. In Japanese usage, 元 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Hajime. In Japanese usage, 元 shares an earlier linguistic root with 円.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 元
- Zhang YuanChinese filmmaker (1963- )
- Hajime TanabeJapanese philosopher (1885–1962)
- Hajime EtoJapanese association football player and managerborn 1973
- Hajime NakamuraJapanese philosopher (1912-1999)
- Gen NakataniJapanese politicianborn 1957
- Hajime SyachoJapanese YouTuberborn 1993
- Wang YuanChinese mathematician (1930-2021)
- Hajime TamuraJapanese politician1924–2014
- Chen YuanChinese economistborn 1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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