Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · unknown
南
南 (Minami) is a unisex given name from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Nan.
Meaning & origin
南’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 南 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Nan. In Japanese usage, 南 as a surname has a related form in みなみ. In Japanese usage, 南 as a surname has a transliteration in みなみ.
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 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 南
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