Name in Japanese C Casey

Casey in Japanese

ケイシー
Katakana
ケイシー
Hiragana
けいしー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Keishī

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

How Casey sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ke
I
シー Shī

Full reading: Keishī

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Why Casey 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, Casey appears as ケイシー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ケイシー and immediately reads it by its sound, Keishī.

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 Casey becomes ケイシー 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.