Gyaru Name Generator

Gyaru (from the English 'gal') is the Japanese street style built on tanned skin, bleached or brightly dyed hair, dramatic lashes and an unapologetically loud personality. It peaked in Shibuya from the late 1990s through the 2000s and split into substyles: kogyaru schoolgirls with loose socks, ganguro and yamanba with extreme tans, glossy hime-gyaru princesses, brash onee-gyaru and their male counterparts, gyaru-o. Gyaru names reflect the girls who actually lived it: they were born mostly between 1980 and 2000, so their real given names are the trendy Heisei-era favorites such as Rina, Yui, Momoka, Airi, Nanami, Hina, Yuna and Kanon, often written with fashionable kanji or in katakana.

What really marks a gyaru is the nickname. Gal magazines like egg, Popteen and Ranzuki introduced models by cute stage handles rather than surnames: Tsubasa Masuwaka was Tsu-chan, Kumiko Funayama became Kumicky, Momoeri and Yukipoyo were built from a first name plus a bubbly suffix. The recipe is a shortened first name plus an ending like -rin, -pon, -tan, -chi, -nyan, -pi or a doubled syllable (Ranran, Meimei, Amiami). Those handles are what a gyaru would write on a purikura sticker or a decoden phone case.

For a full character name, pair one of these first names with an everyday surname (Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi, Kobayashi) since gyaru came from every kind of family, then let the nickname do the styling.