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涼
りょう
Ryo
RYOH · a unisex name
“Coolness, refreshing air”
Cool · Composed · Refreshing
The story of Ryo
The cool Ryo — an evening breeze in human form.
Ryo is short, smooth and worn by men and women alike. Its kanji choices give it either the coolness of an evening breeze or the reach of a far horizon.
Kanji by kanji
cool, refreshing
The kanji of evening breezes and shaded water — summer's most welcome feeling.
How it feels
The full story
About 涼
涼 is composure as comfort: the person whose calm cools an overheated room. A name that never raises its voice and never needs to.
Popularity in Japan
Ryo has appeared steadily on both boys' and girls' charts since the 1990s — never loud, never gone.
Through the decades
A quietly cool name of the Heisei era, still effortlessly current.
Deep dive
Japanese prizes ryō — coolness — as an aesthetic: wind chimes, evening air, water over stones. The name captures that composed freshness, with an alternative spelling that trades breeze for horizon.
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