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Sorry for the trivial question, but I've just started learning Japanese and
thought that I should know how to write my name in hiragana. My name is
Harriet.

My first guesses were はリえた or はリえと. I tried putting it into some web
applications: one gave me はありと (which seems like a strange way of doing it),
and another gave me some kanji and the romaji 'Harietto' which I guess would
be はりえっと (?)

What would be the correct way of writing the name 'Harriet'?
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hiragana names
Writing the name Harriet in Japanese
Try going to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(name)> and hitting the
Japanese pages to see how other people named Harriet have their names written.
It's usually ハリエット (english names are usually written in katakana) or はりえっと in
hiragana.
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By any modern conventions ハリエット would be the proper way to write it. Something
like ハリエタ would be wrong because, first, words ending with consonants like t
in this case frequently have a っ (small tsu) to give it that kind of hardness,
and second, because words that end in t generally use ト rather than タ at the
end. Using タ makes it sound more like it's from a Romance language or
something (like how in Japanese it's サラダ and not サラド). ハリエト fails also on the
first point. ハリート (if we make it katakana) doesn't really match at all. If we
match the pronunciation it would be something like "Hareet."

Writing it in hiragana would never be done unless for some intended effect.

Several examples are also present here:
[http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=harriet&ref=sa](http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=harriet&ref=sa)
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My name is also Harriet! :) I've been learning Japanese and travelling to
Japan for about 10 years now - I've always used/been told that it's written
ハリエット.
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