Artists names you thought were their lastnames?? :P
 

hehe... this might be a silly question? but for instance:

Koda Kumi

since I know her I always thought Koda was her name... later I found out Kumi was actually her name and it a was a shock.. xD. I don't like how Kumi Koda sounds.. so I always call her Koda Kumi :P

Also I have trouble calling Hira Ken backwards.. ''Ken Hirai'' I don't like how it sounds haha.

so what about you?

I'm on the boat with you on Kumi Koda. I always thought it was the other way around, too!

That and Hikaru Utada. I could never figure out which way it was. Hikaru always made more sense since that sounded more "nameish", but whenever I would go to a website that always listed ALL the other artists one way, hers would be the other way around. (IE: Ayumi Hamasaki ---> Utada Hikaru) I wish people would keep up with a little consistency. =P

I can't think of many others right now, although fairly recently I had a bout with Hitoto Yo's name. But I figured that out quickly.

Koda Kumi...Utada Hikaru recently...before i thoguht utada was her first name..then i started readin random biographies a few weeks ago[i like rereading the same stuff XD]..and they refered her last name as being her first name...so then i got confused....

oooh yes utada Hikaru! same thing for me!! but I learned that his father is Utada so... hahaha

Ya! I always thought that it was Koda and Utada, but I was misleaded. :laugh

Hikaru Utada, Kumi Koda, Nozomi Tsuji (still going on :rolleyes). Oh and Ken Hirai. And Nanase Aikawa!

Yup... Nozomi Tsuji for me too ^^;; but partly because I never knew her first name, because they always called her Tsuji... ^^;; So I thought that was her first name... I should've known better, because people don't go calling them by their first name all the time ^^; Ai Kago was easy to figure out though... ^^;;

for the longsest timei thought that Namie's first name was Amuro and her last name was Namie. i thought that until i took a japanese at my highschool

oh I just remember Abe Natsumi!.... Natsumi being her name!!! a friend just told me! xD and I forgot!

hahaha

Well Koda's real name is Kumiko Koda.

And for me as well the Hikki thing

Nanase Aikawa and lot of Morning Musume/Hello Project singers.

I think kumi Koda ( :P ) and natsumi Abe are the only names I mixed up. Koda's worst though, her songs are the only ones saved as "Koda kumi - title" in my library. All other j-pop artists are the other way around. =P

Shiina Ringo ^.^* Only earlier this year did I learn that Shiina is her last name.. (though Ringo is part of her stage name >.> but still)

(This is actually an opposite thing for me.. I thought her last name was her first name lol)

Shiina Ringo and Kumi Koda...from this thread i now know it's actually their last name

I think I read somewhere that Shiina Ringo's real name is 'Yumiko'. It's good that she didn't keep such a boring name.

and just a little Japanese trivia - most of the time the part which ends with 'da' is the surname. eg. Matsuda Seiko and of course Koda, Utada, etc.

Koda Kumi and Utada Hikaru for me! ^^ I thought Hikaru was her family name..

Ringo is her name??????????? wow! I had nooooooooooo Idea!

sankyou!

i think u guys get the wrong idea....
in japan they dont use first/lastname...instead they use their family name in the front and their name in the back *for example...Utada Hikaru* her family name are Utada and Hikaru are her name....alot of people always confuse...
unlike ayumi hamasaki,she use ayumi in the front because she dont want people outside of japan to confuse.....but still japanese folk call her hamasaki ayumi because that is the correct pronounce...(if my english stinks forgive me...)

I used to think that "Amuro" was Namie Amuro's first name... but that was before I became a fan of her's.

It's quite simple.

in Japanese male and female names, there are certain endings. "ko" means child, so for example, Aki"ko" and Yuki"ko." It's basically feminine. Another popular ending for girls is "mi" like Ayu"mi."Guys tend to have more "o" name endings. There are lots more, but I forgot, lol.