Name in Japanese C Conner

Conner in Japanese

コナー
Katakana
コナー
Hiragana
こなー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Konā

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

How Conner sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ko
ナー

Full reading: Konā

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Why Conner 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, Conner appears as コナー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees コナー and immediately reads it by its sound, Konā.

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 Conner becomes コナー 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.