Tsubaki

Tsubaki is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Camellia flower.

What Tsubaki means

Camellia flower.

Tsubaki 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 Tsubaki 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.

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

How popular is Tsubaki?

You will not find Tsubaki 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 Tsubaki

Two ideas meet in Tsubaki: flowers and growing things and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.

Themes: Flower, Nature

Names like Tsubaki

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

  • Hana — Flower, blossom.
  • Sakura — Cherry blossom.
  • Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
  • Daphne — The laurel tree.
  • Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
  • Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
  • Rose — The rose flower.
  • Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
  • Acacia — Thorny tree; resurrection.
  • Alani — Orange tree.
  • Anthea — Flower; blossom.
  • Azalea — The azalea flower.

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