Okaru
Okaru is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Lightly.
What Okaru means
Lightly.
Okaru 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 Okaru 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.
Okaru is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Okaru?
You will not find Okaru in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Okaru
We group Okaru under light and brightness. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Light
Names like Okaru
These share Okaru's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Azuki — Shine.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Naoki — Radiance.
- Akira — Bright, clear.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Haru — Spring; sunlight.
- Haruki — Shining brightly; spring child.