MEANING & HISTORY
What does Kenshin mean?
The Cebuano entry links Kenshin with Himura Kenshin of Rurouni Kenshin, independently identified by the official series site. A separate Japanese name spelling 謙信 combines modest and trust.
That character-conditioned account is not the anime hero’s automatic meaning. Preserve the namesake formation and avoid claiming one universal translation from Roman letters.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
From Japanese けんしん (Kenshin). Named after Himura Kenshin, the protagonist of the anime Rurouni Kenshin. The anime was very popular in the Philippines in the late 90s and early 2000s.
a male given name from Japanese
Wiktionary: Kenshin (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Kenshin in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Kenshin
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Kenshirō♂Fist + four + bright in the documented 拳四朗 spelling
- Kelvin♂From Scotland’s River Kelvin
- Kenji♂Japanese name whose meaning depends on its characters
- Kenken♂Repeated Ken, familiar to Kenneth or Kendrick
- Kennie♀A familiar form associated with Kenny
- Kevin♂Dear or handsome, joined with birth
- Chinchin♀Repeated familiar form of Gretchen or China
- Keagan·Variant of Keegan, from Mac Aodhagáin
What rhymes with Kenshin?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Kenshin further
Follow the sources
- Wiktionary contributors — Kenshin (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Kenshin (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Aniplex of America — Rurouni Kenshin official character page (opens in a new tab)
Actually opened primary franchise page independently identifies Kenshin Himura as the wandering swordsman. Exact Cebuano namesake claim separately explicit in its qualified entry; no unsupported popularity assertion copied.