International female name

Hello you all! I am a European man married with a Japanese woman. She's pregnant at the moment and in few months we will have a daughter. I am trying to work out a name for her which can be suitable both in Japanese and Western context. Can anyone suggest me a good "international" female name that may sound well in Japan and the West? Something like Emma (E-n-ma), Emy (E-mi), Sarah (Sa-ra), ... Any name suggestion or advice will be highly appreciated. The most I get, the easiest to find the one. Thank you very much in advance for your time

Hello. I collected the most normal sounding names for you, all which are rather common.

Anna, Erika, Hana, Karen, Karin, Karina, Maria, Marie, Marina, Maya, Mina, Naomi, Nina, Sara, Reina, Rina

By the way, congratulations to you of having your first baby!

I have a number of friends who are Japanese/foreign couples, and some of them have girls- those who have gone for international names have called their daughters Karen, Emiri (Emily), Risa (Lisa), Aya, Riri (Lily) and Mari, among others. The list above is a good one.

ah nice congrats mate. I'm from aus and i did not know that the most common name for a girl is 'Mia' which i thought was japanese...haha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given...

so yea i think that will be a great name ;)

cheers

Thank you very much Rin and Sira for your valueable input. I added it to my name list. I start to feel it's going to be hard when it comes the time to take the final decision...

Thank you very much Sonny. I have to admit that Mia is one of my favorite names at the moment, and I didn't know was so popular in Australia. Your link is very useful.

Mia or Miya would be a lovely name, and very international.

Another name, though it may be a bit old-fashioned, it Julie. I know someone with that name, written Ž÷—¢ in Japanese - the sound is close enough.

Thanks a lot AK; you are right, Julie (or Julia) is really a good option.
However I prefer to avoid the r/l dichotomy even if, I know, it excludes many nice names. My wife and I, we agree we should call our daughter in the very same way.

How about Maya, Mika and June (Jun)?

Arisa (Alyssa)

Jun and Arisa were missing. They go straightaway into my names list. Thanks a lot!