Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
弥
“to go across, to go over, to pass through”
弥 (Wataru) is a masculine given name. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Wataru.
Meaning & origin
What it means
弥 goes back to a word meaning “to go across, to go over, to pass through.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
弥’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 弥 can be written in the Roman alphabet as WATARU. In Japanese usage, 弥 has a related form in 彌.
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 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love 弥, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.