Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
繁
“silk”
繁 is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Shigeru.
Meaning & origin
繁’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 繁 has a conventional equivalent in the French form SHIGERU. In Japanese usage, 繁 can be written in the Roman alphabet as SHIGERU.
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Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 1
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People named 繁
- Shigeru YokotaniJapanese association football playerborn 1987
- Shigeru ChibaJapanese actor and voice actorborn 1954
- Shigeru HonjōJapanese general (1876-1945)
- Shigeru AokiJapanese painter (1882-1911)
- Shigeru InodaJapanese ophthalmologist, amateur astronomer (1955–2008)
- Bokusui WakayamaJapanese poet (1885–1928)
- Shigeru AburayaJapanese long-distance runner (track and field), coachborn 1977
- Shigeru KobayashiJapanese baseball player1952–2010
- Shigeru TakadaJapanese baseball playerborn 1945
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