me too, it sounds so cute in Chinese ^^


but yeah i love the look and sound of her name ^^
あゆみ is fun to write :D　浜崎 is kinda difficult though

I would love to see Ayu's signature when she signs in Japanese....but I don't think she ever does?

Maybe that's it. Because the letters are so much more curved than in other people's names. It's really pretty.

Like I think it would look so cool on like, some giant banner with really interesting ink.

@pomegranate: Namie's name is crazy. The characters are so full and there's like 5 of them. I could never fail to recognise her name lol

Lol maybe Namie based SO CRAZY off of her name XD

I recognize her name that way too...so many strokes while Ayu's is so curly and loopy ♥

yeah like...it's crazy loopy when compared to all these other names...this is what I see anyway lol

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5259/namesi.jpg

I don't know if that's really indicative of the average name in Japan.

and I didn't know she made a song based off her name :laugh It is crazy...I would have never thought you could use so many characters to say a relatively short name lol

I guess the closest to the loopiest is Ami Suzuki XD

Lol exactly XD Ayumi Hamasaki is a lot longer than Namie Amuro

Namie's name is kinda easy to write.....though I can't say the same for the artist above ayaka :laugh

god I barely even remember which one is ayaka lol

oh right...The one above it is "Shiori Takei"...I didn't listen to her much...maybe you should try her pomegranate, she has some nice ballads...and a really nice voice....some are a bit jazzy though.


I really like Sonomi Tameoka's name too, which is 為岡そのみ.

it's less interesting to you because is written in hiragana, the japanese syllables alphabet used to write all the grammatical components of the sentences but is used as well to write all the names or words.

Well, Ayu's name is 歩 really but I thought she wrote ayumi in hiragana as her artist name just to stand out...? Or am I totally wrong? I just thought I heard it somewhere...

Ayumi Hamasaki, the name I'll find it first in newspapers, internet, mags, and everything.

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but actually most Japanese's personal names are in Kanji, but there are also many females who have their first name in hiragana.

Most of the time when someone has their name written in katakana it is when it's a foreign name (like 土屋アンナ Tsuchiya Anna, 木村カエラ Kimura Kaela, and 青山テルマ Aoyama Thelma), or when they simply opt to use katakana aesthetically as their artistic name if they're in the media.

But it is true that hiragana is viewed in a way "childish" or cute. In Ayu's case, I think they went for the hiragana because it's "cuter".

ayumi looks beautiful and simple at the same time, i like it, also it feels more personal than kanji

I agree emi :) I've always noticed that about her name. I can recognize her name in an instant XD.