Shimeyo
Shimeyo is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Substitute.
What Shimeyo means
Substitute.
Shimeyo 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 Shimeyo 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.
Shimeyo is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Shimeyo?
Shimeyo 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.
Names like Shimeyo
These share Shimeyo's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Sachiko — Child of happiness.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Sora — Sky.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Emi — Beautiful blessing; smile.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.