Name in Japanese A Alejandro

Alejandro in Japanese

アレハンドロ
Katakana
アレハンドロ
Hiragana
あれはんどろ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Arehandoro

This is the established spelling used for Alejandro in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Alejandro sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
Re
Ha
N
Do
Ro

Full reading: Arehandoro

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Why Alejandro is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Alejandro appears as アレハンドロ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アレハンドロ and immediately reads it by its sound, Arehandoro.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Alejandro becomes アレハンドロ rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.