Name in Japanese G Gregory

Gregory in Japanese

グレゴリー
Katakana
グレゴリー
Hiragana
ぐれごりー
Romaji (Hepburn)
Guregorī

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

How Gregory sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Gu
Re
Go
リー

Full reading: Guregorī

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Why Gregory 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, Gregory appears as グレゴリー. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees グレゴリー and immediately reads it by its sound, Guregorī.

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 Gregory becomes グレゴリー 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.