Shiro

Gender:male
Hiragana Hiragana is a syllabary used in written Japanese,
which originated from the cursive style of Kanji.:しろ
KatakanaKatakana is also a Japanese syllabary.
Basically, the characters don't have any meaning by themselves,
they only represent the sounds.
Japanese basically try to express the words came from foreign languages
with the most similar sounds in Japanese using Katakana.:シロ

This name can also be used as a female name.

Meanings by Kanji

In Japanese, there is a culture of Kanji which is a set of characters originated from Chinese characters, and the meaning of the name changes according to the choice of Kanji characters.
The greater the number of kanji variations, the more common name is in Japan. On the other hand, a name with few variations of kanji is unique and not very familiar to Japanese people.
For Shiro, Kanji choices are listed below.

白～ Shiro ～
meaning:

"白" is white.　
- 白
- 白
城～ Shiro ～
meaning:

"城" is castle.　
- 城
- 城