Ibuki
Ibuki is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Rejoice.
What Ibuki means
Rejoice.
Ibuki sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Ibuki 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.
Ibuki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Ibuki?
Ibuki sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Ibuki
Ibuki sits in our Joy group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Joy
Names like Ibuki
These share Ibuki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Emi — Beautiful blessing; smile.
- Sachiko — Child of happiness.
- Fudzuki — Rejoice.
- Beatriz — She who brings joy.
- Naomi — Pleasantness, delight.
- Thalia — To flourish, to bloom.
- Abigail — My father's joy.
- Allegra — Joyful and lively.
- Beatrix — Voyager; bringer of joy.
- Bliss — Perfect joy.
- Eden — Delight; paradise.
- Farah — Joy; happiness.