Japanese Name Generator

The installed Faker 9.9.0 Japanese locale has 500 generic surname entries, 135 male given-name entries and 145 female given-name entries. The given name 葵 appears in both gender lists. Surnames and given names are sampled independently; a combination can repeat or match a real person, and the lists are not a population-frequency model.

The dedicated list uses family-name-first order. Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes surname-given-name as Japanese name order in its discussion of romanized names. That reference explains the order; it does not provide this generator’s names or convert them to Latin letters. Output keeps the source spelling, including kana where present, rather than promising every given name is written in kanji.

The source lists contain written names without verified pronunciation or meaning fields. Do not infer a unique reading or character meaning from a random result. For an authentic character biography, verify the particular spelling and intended reading separately. For software tests, check that your form stores and exports the original Unicode text; the name validation fixture pack supplies deliberate edge cases.

A Japanese address is ordered the opposite way round from a Western one. Written in Japanese it begins with the seven-digit postal code marked by 〒, then the prefecture, then the city or ward, then the district and the block-and-building numbers, and the recipient's name comes last. The address narrows from largest unit to smallest, so the final element is the building rather than the country.

The number at the end is not a street number, because most Japanese streets are not named. The trailing group — 1-1-1 in the example below — is a chōme, a block within it, and a building within that block. There is no street name to parse, which means an address form modelled as house number plus street name has no slot for a Japanese address at all, and the usual workaround of stuffing everything into address line 1 loses the structure that made it deliverable.

The postal code is seven digits written as three, a hyphen and four. It is precise enough that Japanese forms routinely auto-fill the prefecture, city and district from it, which is a courtesy an international form can offer too, provided it does not then lock the remaining fields — the block and building are not derivable from the code.

Japanese profiles are not geographically pinned. This implementation retains native-script locale data and draws city, prefecture and postal code independently, so those fields need not agree. Use the full record for script, layout and field-length tests rather than as a coherent location. The profile’s name uses given-name-first order; the dedicated name list above uses surname-first order. Both retain the source spelling, which can include kana as well as kanji. The methodology page describes the geographic limits.