Best Overall
具蓮
ぐれん
The most balanced reading — natural sound, clear meaning.
- 具 possess
- 蓮 lotus
Glenn in Japanese Kanji
Pronounced グレン · ぐれん · guren
Elegant
宮恋
ぐれん
Softer characters, chosen for how they look and feel on the page.
- 宮 palace
- 恋 affection
Bold
群錬
ぐれん
Stronger strokes and more striking meanings.
- 群 group
- 錬 refine
How these characters were chosen
Japanese has no letters for foreign names, so a name is first written in katakana — グレン — which records how it sounds. Kanji are then chosen whose readings match those sounds. Because many characters share the same reading, there is never a single correct spelling; there are only choices, and each one changes what the name says.
具蓮 is built from 具 (possess), 蓮 (lotus). Every character here comes from a hand-checked dictionary, and combinations that happen to spell an ordinary Japanese word are rejected before you ever see them.