Japanese names that mean star

Japanese has a whole sky of star kanji for names. The plain word for star, 星 (hoshi, sei), turns up in names like Seiya, but the most used star kanji is quieter: 斗, the Big Dipper, which ends a long list of boys' names such as Haruto (陽斗), Yūto (悠斗) and Kaito (海斗).

昴 (Subaru) is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster, the same word the car company took its name and logo from. 宙 means space or the open sky and is usually read sora. Together these let parents name a child after the night sky without the name sounding like an ordinary word.