Throughout the world, 中根 (中根 
, Zhonggen 
, Nakane 
) is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but scarcely girly first name. The first name 中根 is characteristic of China, where it is a rare principally boy's, but very infrequently female name, and South Africa, where it is a very rare boy's name. Much less frequently, 中根 is the last name as well as the forename.
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| 中根 | China |
| Zhonggen | Switzerland, United States, China, Ecuador |
| Nakane | South Africa, Brazil, United States, Japan, China |
| 中根正盛 JP (b. 1588) |
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| 中根元圭 musicologist and rekigaku, JP (b. 1662) |
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| 中根東里 JP (b. 1694) |
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| 中根忠容 JP (b. 1752) |
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中根幸 concubine of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, JP (b. 1836) |
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中根香亭 Japanese sinologist, JP (b. 1839) |
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中根重一 Japanese politician, JP (b. 1851) |
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| 中根長十郎 JP (b. 1794) |
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| 中根雪江 JP (b. 1807) |
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中根之 Japanese baseball player, JP (b. 1910) |
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| 中根鳳次郎 JP (b. 1855) |
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| 中根中 founder of the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, JP (b. 1870) |
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中根千枝 Japanese anthropologist, JP (b. 1926) |
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| 中根駒十郎 JP (b. 1882) |
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中根猛 Japanese ambassador, JP (b. 1949) |
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