MEANING & HISTORY
What does Gohan mean?
Gohan is recorded as a Cebuano given name associated with the Dragon Ball character Son Gohan. The Japanese word gohan means cooked rice and can also refer to a meal.
The official series account confirms the character and his family naming relationship. His written name 悟飯 is not simply identical to the ordinary word’s ご飯 spelling. The researched account is a modern popular-culture name connection, not evidence for an ancient Japanese name universally meaning rice.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Cebuano
Dictionary accounts by language
Cebuano
From Japanese ごはん (gohan, “cooked rice”). Named after the character Son Gohan of Dragon Ball. There are two characters named Gohan, one being the more popular Goku's son, and then on the other side Goku's adoptive grandpa. The anime was very popular in the Philippines in the 90s and early 2000s.
a male given name from Japanese
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
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