Entry № 341 · Japanese origin

Akazome Akazome — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-kah-ZOH-meh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Heian poet who authored the Eiga Monogatari"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "heian poet who authored the eiga monogatari".

Akazome (赤染) means "red-dyed." Akazome Emon (c. 956-c. 1041) was the Heian-period waka poet and prose author — traditionally credited as the author of the Eiga Monogatari ("A Tale of Flowering Fortunes"), the first chronicle in vernacular Japanese covering the Fujiwara regency period.

Among the Thirty-Six Female Immortals of Poetry.

Heian poet who authored the Eiga Monogatari — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

赤染
Transliteration
Akazome
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.kəˈzoʊ.mɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akazome stands.

Akazome does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Akazomes before her.

Real people
Akazome Emon
Heian poet and chronicler.
c. 956 – c. 1041
In fiction
Akazome
Eiga Monogatari.

Names connected to Akazome.

The number behind Akazome.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akazome reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.