Does 鴉靉魅 work for the name Aimi?

Question

I tried to find kanji for the name Aimi by looking at the readings of kanji on jisho.org.

Do the kanji 鴉靉魅 work for the name Aimi?

Answer 1

Well, it sort of works, depending how you interpret "works".

The ENAMDICT database contains many rare names (and over 100 ways of writing the name あいみ in kanji — but not 鴉靉魅).

The database does contain entries

• あいか 【鴉嘩】

• そうあ 【蒼鴉】

• えいこ 【靉子】

as well as several names using 魅 for the (common) ending, such as

• あさみ 【亜佐魅】

as "female given name" suggesting that all characters might be used in a name.

Reading 鴉 and 靉 as a and i is "theoretically" possible, but almost impossible to guess. Note also that these two are hyōgai kanji, so they could not be used in a given name for a baby girl (or boy) born in Japan now.

Also, the choice of kanji does looks a bit like someone wanted a name with as many kanji and as many strokes as possible.

If you wanted a more "realistic" name you could keep 魅 as mi and put either

1. two kanji for ai, such as 安意 for 安意魅, say, or
2. a single kanji for ai, such as 愛 or 和 or 想 or 藍 for 愛魅 etc.

I think this way you can get a pretty name, which isn't too eccentric.