Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
洋
“water”·“multitudinous; vast; ocean”
洋 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Nada.
Meaning & origin
What it means
洋 is built from elements meaning “water” and “multitudinous; vast; ocean”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
洋’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 洋 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Nada. In Japanese usage, 洋 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Hiroshi. In Japanese usage, 洋 can be written in the Roman alphabet as YAU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 22
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 洋
- Hiroshi KatayamaJapanese association football playerborn 1940
- Hiroshi MoriyasuJapanese association football playerborn 1972
- Hiroshi FukushimaJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Hiroshi KitadaniJapanese singerborn 1968
- Hiroshi SakurazakaJapanese writerborn 1970
- Hiroshi MiyauchiJapanese actorborn 1947
- Yo OizumiJapanese actor and voice actorborn 1973
- Yo SasakiJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Kikuō HayashiyaJapanese rakugoka and seiyūborn 1937
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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