Surname · Japanese
禰宜
“to pray for blessings or protection”
禰宜 (Negi) is a surname from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Negi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
禰宜 goes back to a word meaning “to pray for blessings or protection.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
禰宜’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 禰宜 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as NEGI. In Japanese usage, 禰宜 as a surname has a related form in 祢宜.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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.
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