Chifuyu

Chifuyu is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Tenderness.

What Chifuyu means

Tenderness.

Chifuyu sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.

Where Chifuyu comes from

Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.

Chifuyu is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.

How popular is Chifuyu?

In the girl name rankings we track, Chifuyu falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.

The character of Chifuyu

We group Chifuyu under Gentle. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.

Themes: Gentle

Names like Chifuyu

These share Chifuyu's themes, origin, or both — closest first.

  • Yuna — Gentle; lotus.
  • Yui — To bind; gentleness.
  • Yuto — Gentle and superior.
  • Caoimhe — Gentle, beautiful and precious.
  • Clementine — Mild and merciful.
  • Delilah — Delicate.
  • Adina — Delicate; noble.
  • Anuhea — Cool, soft fragrance.
  • Dalia — Grapevine; gentle.
  • Damaris — Gentle; a calf.
  • Famke — Little girl.
  • Fawn — A young deer; gentle.

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