Can "小畑" be read as "Emiriya", and how?


According to [this entry on
Jisho](https://jisho.org/search/Emiriya%20%23names), the Kanji "小畑" could be
read as "Emiriya" (えみりや).

However - no On'yomi, Kun'yomi, or any combination of
[小](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F#Readings) and
[畑](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%95%91#Readings) readings I could find
seem to indicate if / how that is possible.

Is there a "formal" way to explain this? Are there other Kanji options?

I've no formal knowledge of how Japanese names are constructed (other than
something about a government regulation that only jinmeiyō / jōyō kanji can be
used?) so honestly I'll take what I can get ^^;

Thanks in advance!




That `#names` function of jisho.org has been severely broken (or tainted) for
a long time, and you should not believe anything from it. See [this
discussion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/68019/5010). I am surprised
that jisho.org still hasn't fixed this obvious problem—it still says [いしだ is a
valid reading of
佐々木](https://jisho.org/search/%23names%20%E4%BD%90%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8) and
[えりりん is a valid reading of
田村](https://jisho.org/search/%23names%20%E7%94%B0%E6%9D%91)!

In Japan, the spelling (kanji) and the pronunciation of a person name can be
registered separetely, so it is at least "legal" to have a baby whose spelling
is 小畑 and whose reading is えみりや (see [this
discussion](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18332/5010)). Nevertheless,
小畑 is a **surname** to begin with, and it's almost never given as a first name
with an arbitrary reading. Also, if the spelling and the pronunciation are
irrelevant to this extent, the government usually will not accept such a
registration. Since the database contains many other clearly wrong names, I
can assure you that this えみりや is 99.99% a hoax, too.

The correct reading of 小畑 is おばた (or sometimes おばたけ, こばたけ, こはた).

