Chihiro

Chihiro
Gender	mostly female, rarely male
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Chihiro (ちひろ, チヒロ) is a Japanese given name mostly used for females. It is assigned to males in rare cases.

Possible writings

Chihiro can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 千尋, "thousand fathoms"
• 千博, "thousand gains"
• 千裕, "thousand, abundance"
• 千紘, "thousand, large or huge"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana, such as ちひろ or チヒロ respectively.

People

• Chihiro Fujioka (born 1959, 千尋), Japanese director
• Chihiro Hara (born 1984, 千尋), Japanese AV idol
• Chihiro Harada, a music composer
• Chihiro Hasegawa (born 1984, ちひろ), award-winning Japanese AV idol
• Chihiro Ishiguro (born 1983, 石黒千尋), professional voice actress, who records voices for animation films
• Chihiro Kaneko (born 1983), Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes
• Chihiro Kato (born 1988), Japanese volleyball player
• Chihiro Kusaka (born 1978), Japanese voice actors
• Chihiro Minato (born 1960, 千尋), Japanese photographer
• Chihiro Onitsuka (born 1980, ちひろ), Japanese singer-songwriter and pianist
• Chihiro Otsuka (born 1986, ちひろ), Japanese actress
• Chihiro Suzuki, Japanese voice actors
• Chihiro Yonekura (born 1972, 千尋), Japanese singer

• Chihiro Kameyama

Characters

• Chihiro Ogino (千尋), the main character in Spirited Away
• Chihiro (千尋), a secondary character in Azumanga Daioh
• Chihiro Shindou (千尋), a main character in Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.
• Chihiro Fujimi, a Oh My Goddess! characters
• Chihiro Fushimi, a secondary character in Persona 3
• Chihiro Kosaka (ちひろ), a heroine in The World God Only Knows

See also

• Sega Chihiro is an arcade system from Sega based on the architecture of the XBox.