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A given name in Japanese and Chinese
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01 / Meaning & origin
靖 is a unisex given name documented in Japanese and Chinese.
11 source accounts
From verb 図る (hakaru, “to intend, to plan, to set a goal or direction”).
Meaning: “clean, pure”
Nominalization of kiyoshi, the pre-modern terminal form (終止形 (shūshikei)) of adjective 清い (kiyoi, “clean, pure”).
Nominalization of verb のぶ (nobu, “延ぶ, 伸ぶ: to grow, to extend”).
Nominalization of verb 治む (osamu, “to make something calm, to stabilize”).
Meaning: “calm, quiet”
Nominalization of adjective 静か (shizuka, “calm, quiet”).
From Sinitic 靖 (jìng).
Probably from 政治 (seiji, “politics”), from the underlying idea of "calming or stabilizing a country", similar to the name Osamu.
Nominalization of verb 静む (shizumu, “to become quiet, to become settled”).
Stem form of adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”).
From 休み (yasumi, “a rest, a break, a vacation”), the stem noun form of verb 休む (yasumu, “to rest, to take a break, to take a vacation”), from adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”) + auxiliary verb む (mu, “to become [adjective], to make something [adjective]”).
Meaning: “peaceful, calm, easygoing”
Nominalization of yasushi, the pre-modern terminal form (終止形 (shūshikei)) of adjective 安い (yasui, “peaceful, calm, easygoing”).
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04 / Through time
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
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