On Wednesday, ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Online website posted the results of its April 14-28 user poll which asked: Which anime and game characters would you like to name your children after? According to Dengeki Online's self-selected pool of respondents.


Here are the top 10 male characters:

1. Touma from Toaru Majutsu no Index
   
2. Sora from Kingdom Hearts franchise
   
3. Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, others
   
4. Hayate from Hayate the Combat Butler
   
5. Sousuke from Full Metal Panic!
   
6. Tomoya from Clannad
   
7. Koyomi from Bakemonogatari
   
8. Yuri from Tales of Vesperia
   
9. Kyosuke from Little Busters!
   
10. Kyo from The King of Fighters franchise
    

Here are the top 10 female characters:

1. Mikoto from Toaru Majutsu no Index
   
2. Yuna from Final Fantasy X
   
3. Nanoha from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
   
4. Yui from K-ON!
   
5. Sakura from Card Captor Sakura
   
6. Mio from K-ON!
   
7. Yuri from Angel Beats!
   
8. Nagisa from Clannad
   
9. Rin from Fate/stay night
   
10. Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners
    

However, Dengeki Online noted that over half of the responses were along the lines of "There's no way I will name them after characters" or "Don't confuse reality with fiction!" The staff initially held back the results due to this feedback, but eventually decided to post the poll results from those who did list character names.

Update: The japanese.about.com website posted the most popular actual Japanese baby names in 2008, 2005 and the last several decades.