Kanji is a boy's name of Japanese origin meaning “honest.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Kanji at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“honest”
About the name Kanji
Kanji belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “honest” — is the sense carried by its Japanese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Kanji first appears in Social Security records in 1924. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4117 in 1924, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 6 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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