Name in Japanese B Brett

Brett in Japanese

ブレット
Katakana
ブレット
Hiragana
ぶれっと
Romaji (Hepburn)
Buretto

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

How Brett sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Bu
Re
ット Tto

Full reading: Buretto

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Why Brett 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, Brett appears as ブレット. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ブレット and immediately reads it by its sound, Buretto.

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 Brett becomes ブレット 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.