Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese

祈

“to pray, to hope for”

祈 (Inori) is a feminine given name, meaning “to pray, to hope for.” It is used in Japanese.

Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Inori.

Meaning & origin

What it means

祈 means “to pray, to hope for.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

祈’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 祈 can be written in the Roman alphabet as EBA. In Japanese usage, 祈 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Inoru. In Japanese usage, 祈 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KIRARI.

Walk 祈’s family in the name graph

祈InoriEbaKirariInoru

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 4

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named 祈

Characters named 祈: Inori Aizawa (moe anthropomorphism mascot character, originally of the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and currently of its successor, Microsoft Edge).

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Similar names

If you love 祈, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Virtue

Gechina

Gechina is a variant of Grace. As a name, Grace carries the word’s association with divine favour. Grace’s meaning comes from a vocabulary word rather than a compound of older personal names.

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Virtue

Nollee

“filled with hope”

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Virtue

Elpidah

“filled with hope”

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Hebrew · Virtue

Lo-ruhamah

“one who does not receive mercy”

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>99% girls

Virtue

Onit

“filled with grace”

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Virtue

Nadusha

“one who is full of hope”

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Virtue

Nyta

“resembling a bear” · “God is giving”

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>99% girls

Virtue

Haneatah

“favored with divine grace”

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Sibling ideas

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