Does 鴉靉魅 work for the name Aimi?


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?




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

The ENAMDICT database contains many rare names (and [over 100
ways](https://jisho.org/search/aimi%20%23names) 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.

