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(Main) gender: Male
Pronunciation: gen-tah [ɡẽ̞́ǹ.tà]
Etymology and/or ways to write:
The second kanji can be used as 太 (ta) meaning “plump, thick,” 汰 (ta) meaning “wash, scour,” 大 (ta) meaning “large, big” or 多 (ta) meaning “many, much.” As for the first kanji, it can be used as:
- 元/源 meaning “origin, source”
- 玄 meaning “deep, profound; mystery, occult”
- 弦/絃 meaning “(bow)string”
- 舷 meaning “gunwale”
- 現 meaning “present, current”
Popularity:
Throughout much of its history, usage for this name was uncommon. In Collazo’s Edo period (1603-1868) name data, two males were recorded as having this name (written as 源太). According to telephone book data, there are only 0.001% of men being recorded in the data with this name.
Regarding Heisei period (1989-2019) popularity, it was given to only 0.040% of boys in 1990, generally stagnating until around 1996 when it rose to 0.057%. It stayed around that mark, throughout the late 1990s through to the mid 2000s and by 2007, it was given to around 0.045%.
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