Shōta
Shōta, Shouta, or Shota is a common masculine Japanese given name.Possible writings
Shōta can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 正太, "correct, thick"
- 翔太, "soar, thick"
- 章太, "composition, thick"
- 奨太, "reward, thick"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.People with the name
- Shota Akiyoshi, Japanese golfer
- Shouta Aoi, Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor
- Shota Arai, Japanese footballer
- Shota Arai, Japanese footballer
- Shōta Chida, Japanese shogi player
- Shota Dobayashi, Japanese baseball player
- Endō Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Shota Fujio, Japanese footballer
- Shota Hayashi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Hazui, Japanese water polo player
- Shota Horie, Japanese rugby union player
- Shota Hoshi, Japanese futsal player
- Shōta Iizuka, Japanese sprinter
- Ikioi Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
- Shota Imai, Japanese footballer
- Shōta Imanaga, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Inoue, Japanese footballer
- Shota Ishimine, Japanese baseball outfielder
- Shota Iwata, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kanno, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kawanishi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kimura, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Kimura, Japanese footballer
- Shota Kobayashi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Koide, Japanese footballer
- Shota Koike, Japanese baseball catcher
- Shota Matsuda, Japanese actor
- Shota Matsuhashi, Japanese footballer
- Shota Matsushima, Japanese actor
- Shota Nakamura, Japanese speed skater
- Shota Nakazaki, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Oba, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Shota Ohno, Japanese baseball catcher
- Shota Otsuka, Japanese footballer
- Shota Saito, Japanese footballer
- Shota Saito, Japanese footballer
- , Japanese actor
- Shota Sakaki, Japanese footballer
- Shota Sasaki, Japanese slalom canoeist
- Shota Shimizu, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter
- Shōta Sometani, Japanese actor
- Shōta Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- Shota Suzuki, Japanese footballer
- Shota Suzuki, Japanese footballer
- Shota Taguchi, Japanese actor
- Shota Takeda, Japanese baseball pitcher
- Shota Takekuma, Japanese baseball player
Fictional characters
- Shōta/Sawyer, a character in the anime series Pokémon XY
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- Shota, a lead character in the 2018 movie Soplifters
