is a very common masculine
Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Shin'ichi can be written using different
kanji characters and can mean:
- 真一, "true, one"
- 信一, "belief, one"
- 伸一, "extend, one"
- 進一, "progress, one"
- 新一, "new, one"
- 慎一, "humility, one"
- 晋一, "advance, one"
- 紳一, "gentleman, one"
- 鎮一, "tranquilize, one"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
Places
Real people
with the given name Shin'ichi
- Shinichi Aoki (紳一), a Japanese professional Go player
- Shinichi Chiba (真一), also known as Sonny Chiba, a Japanese actor
- Shinichi Fujimura (新一), a Japanese amateur archaeologist
- Shinichi Hoshi (新一), a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer
- Shin'ichi Ishiwata (信一), a Japanese scientist
- Shinichi Itoh (真一), a Japanese professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- Shinichi Kitaoka (伸一), a Japanese professor of political science
- Shinichi Mori (進一), a Japanese enka singer
- Shinichi Sato (真一), a Japanese professional baseball player
- Shinichi Sekizawa (新一), a Japanese screenwriter
- Shinichi Shinohara (信一), a Japanese judoka
- Shin'ichi Suzuki (鎮一), a Japanese violinist
- Shin'ichi Suzuki (真一), a Japanese photographer
- Shin'ichi Suzuki (真一), a Japanese photographer
- Shin'ichi Tanaka (新一), a Japanese photographer
- Shinichi Tsutsumi (真一), a Japanese stage and screen actor
- Shinichi Watanabe (慎一), a Japanese anime director
- Wakakirin Shinichi (真一), a Japanese sumo wrestler
Fictional characters
with the given name Shin'ichi
- Shin'ichi Kudo (新一), the main protagonist of the anime and manga series Case Closed
See also