Mamiko Noto
The common Japanese practice of forming abbreviations by concatenating the first two morae of two words is sometimes applied to names (usually those of celebrities). For example, , a famous Japanese actor and singer, becomes . This is sometimes applied even to non-Japanese celebrities: Brad Pitt, whose full name in Japanese is is commonly known as , and Jimi Hendrix is abbreviated as . Some Japanese celebrities have also taken names combining kanji and katakana, such as . Another slightly less common method is doubling one or two syllables of the person's name, such as the use of "MamiMami" for Mamiko Noto.