Noboru

Noboru is a boy name of Japanese origin, ranked #104 in popularity, meaning To rise, to ascend.

What Noboru means

To rise, to ascend.

Noboru 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 Noboru 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.

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

How popular is Noboru?

Noboru is ranked #104, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.

The character of Noboru

Noboru sits in our Sky group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.

Themes: Sky

Names like Noboru

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

  • Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
  • Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
  • Riku — Land; sky.
  • Sho — To soar, to fly; to prosper.
  • Sora — Sky.
  • Buraun — Cloud.
  • Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
  • Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
  • Niall — Champion; cloud.
  • Aarush — First ray of the sun.
  • Aditya — The sun.
  • Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.

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