Nanase
Nanase is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Star.
What Nanase means
Star.
Nanase sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Nanase 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.
Nanase is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Nanase?
Nanase is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Nanase is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Nanase
We group Nanase under Star and the stars and sky — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Nanase
These share Nanase's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Haruse — Star.
- Nova — New; a blazing star.
- Naledi — Star.
- Stella — Star. Shining and celestial.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Bituin — Star.
- Csilla — Morning star.
- Danica — Morning star.
- Dara — Star; maiden.
- Estelle — Star.
- Hesper — The evening star.