What's my name in Japanese? (make requests here!)

[martinhm]

I have found several katakana transliterations for Martin and was wondering which was more commonly used or preferred.

1. マルチン
2. マルティン
3. マーチン
4. マーティン

1, 2 and 3 all seem to be recognised as Martin by various online translators, but 4 seems to be translated as Martyn for some reason (it is in Jim Breen's dictionary as such). 4 seems to be the most faithful in terms of pronunciation and I am confused by the spurious use of ル in 1 and 2, when you can just lengthen the vowel sound in マ.

[westtima]

Tim West

I have heard a couple different ones but was wondering which is the corect one. West is Nishi but can I use that as my last name or is that referring to the directional west and would have to use something else? Thanks for the help.

[oliverp]

Oliver Primus

Does anyone know what my name would be in japanese?

[helu]

オリーバー　プライムス, I think.

[HeyItsBryan]

My name's Bryan Lufkin. Is this correct?

ブラヤン　ルフキン

Or would my first name be: ブラーヤン

[John Larkin]

My name is John Larkin and my friends name is Amy Blumenthal

thanks.

[Aaron_saun]

Aaron Fried

could i please get help with my name?

i need to know how to speak it in japanese and also write it

[Musouka]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but if anyone is interested in going a step further and want to know how to write their names in Kanji, you can follow these links:

How To Write Names In Japanese - Part 1

How To Write Names In Japanese - Part 2

3000 Names in Japanese

[untmdsprt]

3000 Names in Japanese

Going by this link my kanji would be 純粋。Personally though, I would want my best friend or (future) husband to give me a Japanese name when they know the true me. Hopefully it won't have this in it: 鬼

I'd like to know one thing though, how does one know how my true English name is spelled when they see ジェニー?

[Musouka]

Well, they don't. They may end up guessing but there are no guarantees that they will do it correctly especially if your name is not quite popular. This is one of the drawback of 'kana-nizing' your name. Of course, you can always let them know your name in English... this is where 名刺 come in handy.

[untmdsprt]

Well, they don't. They may end up guessing but there are no guarantees that they will do it correctly especially if your name is not quite popular. This is one of the drawback of 'kana-nizing' your name. Of course, you can always let them know your name in English... this is where 名刺 come in handy.

I meant my personality, not my name.

[Musouka]

I was actually answering this

I'd like to know one thing though, how does one know how my true English name is spelled when they see ジェニー?

[untmdsprt]

I was actually answering this

I'd like to know one thing though, how does one know how my true English name is spelled when they see ジェニー?

すみません。Hard to follow with all these posts!!

[Musouka]

ドンマイ

[christrax66]

Hi, my name is Chris Hurton
Can you tell me what this is in Japanese?
Arigato