Name in Japanese R Roberta

Roberta in Japanese

ロベルタ
Katakana
ロベルタ
Hiragana
ろべるた
Romaji (Hepburn)
Roberuta

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

How Roberta sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

Ro
Be
Ru
Ta

Full reading: Roberuta

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Why Roberta 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, Roberta appears as ロベルタ. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees ロベルタ and immediately reads it by its sound, Roberuta.

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 Roberta becomes ロベルタ 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.