Lotus: Difference between Ren and Hasu

This is a two part question:

Part 1. I'm American. I'm interested in legally changing my first name to Ren (�@). When I type the Haragana character into Google Translate, it says that it is pronounced "Hasu"... not "Ren".

Why is this?

Part 2. I am also interested in changing my surname to "Abe" (���{). From the perspective of a Japanese person, is the name �@���{ unusual? Is it highly unusual for a foreigner to have a 100% Japanese name?

Thank you for your insight!

You are confused about many things...

1. �@ is a kanji character, not hiragana ("haragana" does not exist). Like most kanji, it can be read in several ways, including "ren" snd "hasu".

2. If you change your name to "Ren", you change your name to "Ren", not to "�@". By which I mean, the kanji character will just be a vanity thing with no legal value. This is true even if you live in Japan, unless you become a Japanese citizen.

3. �@���{ would be extremely unusual. ���{�@, probably less so. By which I mean, you got the order wrong: in Japanese, the family name comes first. It should be obvious that it is extremely rare for a foreigner to have a Japanese name, unless they are of Japanese ancestry.

Assuming you will remain American, if you change your name, it will be with the US authorities, not with the Japanese authorities. In this case, only alphabet writing of the name would be allowed. Writing it with kanji will be only for your own use. Your passport would say �gRen Abe�h with no kanji given.
If you ever come to live in Japan, and eventually decide to naturalize into a Japanese citizen, then ���{�@�@ might be a way to write it.

1. If you enter ��� (in hiragana) and hit �gconvert�h, one of the kanji that appears would be �@. And this kanji has more than one �greadings,�h one of which is �gren,�h and another is �ghasu.�h Nothing is strange about it.
2. It will be ���{ (family name) �@ (given name). I have not heard of this name in my life so far (Japanese here), but can�ft say if it is �gunusual�h or �grare�h or anything like that. But yes, it is highly unusual for a foreigner to have a 100% Japanese name, unless they�fve naturalized.

And that is why you don't go naming or tattooyourself in language that you don't have a clue that you are doing...

Onyomi and kunyomi, kanji have different reading/pronounciation depends on ...
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/onyomi-kunyomi/

Thanks everyone for your insight! I think I will probably wait until I become a naturalized citizen before changing my name.