@article{oai:rissho.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005660,
 author = {ウンサーシュッツ, ジャンカーラ and UNSER-SCHUTZ, Giancarla},
 journal = {立正大学心理学研究所紀要},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {It has been widely reported that Japanese naming practices are changing dramatically. These
changes are especially important in regards to names and gender. Because one of the most prominent
differences is the decline of the use of name-exclusive suffixes, which usually express their owner’s
gender, their decline suggests that there may be changes in how gender is expressed in names. This
article observed how the characteristics of men’s and women’s names have changed through using
data from an approximately 100 year period from Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance. As a result, it was discovered
that at the beginning of the 20th century, men’s names were more diverse than women’s, but
women’s names are now similarly or more diverse. In addition, previously popular -ko and -mi suffixes
for women are now essentially out of use, and men’s suffixes have all changed. Finally, there were no
names that ranked in the top-10 for any year for both men and women, and the pool of kanji common
between men’s and women’s names was small. From these results, it can be argued that instead of
suffixes, the use of the kanji themselves can help differentiate the gender of any given name.},
 pages = {89--99},
 title = {現代日本における名付け事情とその変遷―男性名と女性名の変化に着目して―},
 volume = {14},
 year = {2016}
}