Talk:Nozomi Kako/@comment-856627-20160224012310/@comment-39.109.176.97-20160225105109

I don't really know if this will help, but I'm pretty sure Chinese naming is similar to Japanese naming, so, as a Chinese:

It's not very common to have a first name that can actually be translated 'together'. Because it can pop up in conversations and all. Like, well, you don't really want that to happen. It does happen, though (like in English, Joy and Grace and so on can be names, and they do pop up in conversations, but even if names like Thomas do mean anything, nobody's gonna use it in their conversation). How names are chosen is probably choosing two words that mean what you want your child to grow up to be, and put them together (as a general rule, they do sound nice and auspicious). So that's why you cant usually translate the two kanji 'together', It's just... idk, weird.

For Japanese family names, though, they're usually named after a place, an animal, what their family did (Yoneya, Inukai, etc., probably had ancestors selling rice and keeping dogs lol), so while they usually can be translated 'together', there are people like Kitora, whose names probably originate from..............