Name in Japanese M Morgan

Morgan in Japanese

モーガン
Katakana
モーガン
Hiragana
もーがん
Romaji (Hepburn)
Mōgan

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

How Morgan sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

モー
Ga
N

Full reading: Mōgan

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Why Morgan 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, Morgan appears as モーガン. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees モーガン and immediately reads it by its sound, Mōgan.

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 Morgan becomes モーガン 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.