both with the on'yomi reading, so either enya or enra. i know very little
about japanese and am looking for a name for a character i'm making and, after
doing a bit of research, thought i liked these. from what i can tell 炎 means
flame/blaze, which sorta relates to part of the chaacter. could they be used
as names and not seem too weird? and if so what would they both, roughly, mean
put together?
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meaning names
can 炎也 and/or 炎羅 be used as a name?
It's a little odd and too
[chūnibyō](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou)-ish as a
real person name. I know no real person whose real name contains the kanji 炎.
It may be okay as the name of a male character in a shounen manga or a fantasy
work. (炎羅 might be used also as a female name.)

炎 is the only kanji that has a clear meaning. Both 也 and 羅 are basically just
"kanji for names" which do not have clear meanings by themselves. (I mean,
they did have some original meanings, but they are almost forgotten by
laypeople. Similar kanji include 伊 and 圭.) Therefore, if your character is
related to fire, it may sound a little too straightforward and facile to
native Japanese speakers. Imagine how a character named "Blaze" sounds to
native English speakers.

Well, if your character is like the image below, 炎也/炎羅 may be a reasonable
choice...

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/49lCS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/49lCS.png)
(From 聖闘士星矢Ω)
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