Amaterasu - Meaning of Amaterasu

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Amaterasu

[ 4 syll. a-ma-te-ra-su, am-ater-asu ] The baby girl name Amaterasu is pronounced as AA-Maa-T-Raa-Suw- †. The origin of Amaterasu is the Japanese language. The meaning of Amaterasu is who illuminates heaven.

See also the related categories, heaven (god) and japanese.

Amaterasu is not often used as a baby girl name. It is not listed within the top 1000.

Baby names that sound like Amaterasu include Anderea, Andriea, Ondreea, Andera (English), Andrah, Andraia, Andras, Andraya, Andrea (English, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, Scandinavian, and Slavic), Andreah, Andreaka, Andreja, Andreka, Andresa (Spanish), Andressa, Andreya, Andréa (French and Portuguese), Andréia (Portuguese), Andricka, and Andrieka.

† English pronunciation for Amaterasu: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)"