URGENT name help needed

[Terestai]

Okay... I'm at work right now and doing a project where I have a list of foreign names, and I have to determine if these people are male or female. Most of them are Korean and Japanese, and I'm using Google and Google image search to find them.

One small problem: names seem to be interchangeable!!! One name equally hits pictures of males and females. And is there a backwards naming convention, whereby last names are written first?

PLEASE help... any info that anyone could give me on Korean and Japanese names would be most appreciated right now. I'm tearing my hair out!

[Ahautenites]

http://genealogy.about.com/od/naming_patterns/

http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa050601a.htm

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20personal%20naming%20conventions

http://www.babynamesworld.com/japanese-names.html

[Iris]

Um...I know that the Japanese suffix '-ko' usually denotes a female name...

does that help at all? :)

[Terestai]

ANY help is good help right about now... thanks, the both of you! :hugz:

[Terestai]

http://genealogy.about.com/od/naming_patterns/

Would you believe they don't have Japanese and the Korean link is broken?! :lol:

[teishabee]

-ko also means child.

[Athena-Nadine]

I do know that in Asian culture the family name is usually put first, before the given name.

[Ahautenites]

Sorry about that. :( Didn't realize. I only scrolled as far as to see the Korean one. Never checked to see if there was a Japanese one.

[Iris]

-ko also means child.

It does?

Well you learn something new every day :)

[Terestai]

Sorry about that. :( Didn't realize. I only scrolled as far as to see the Korean one. Never checked to see if there was a Japanese one.

Hehe... I wasn't being accusatory. Just found it ironic. :D And actually, the second link you gave me was Japanese patterns, even though it wasn't in the list on the first link you gave me.

This is great stuff, all of you!

[teishabee]

well I like to do research on geisha. geiko, means child of the arts. gei meaning arts, I presumed ko meant child?

[Fideal]

http://www.20000-names.com/female_japanese_names.htm

http://www.20000-names.com/male_japanese_names.htm

[morrigen]

And i'm no help at all...all the japanese I know comes from reading Shogun, and manga...somewhere between 5 and 15 words.

Sorry, Terestai-san. ;)

[mothwench]

hey, terestai. what exactly is your job? sounds interesting. :)

[CleftOfLight]

last names come first n most asian cultuers