[82riceballs]

some japanese names don't have a meaning. some, like urs, are transliterated from english and are written in katakana (in ur case, チレル）and are just cool to say.

it would help if you had the kanji for that since each kanji has a specific meaning. some names could be written a hundred different ways (and therefore a hundred different meanings) but still be pronounced the same.

for example, your name, "chireru" could be written a many ways if you choose random kanji. each syllable would be a different kanji. "chi" could be written 千 meaning "1000," 智 meaning "wisdom," 恥 meaning "shame", etc. The "re" could be 黎 meaning "darkness," 玲 a kind of sound, etc. there's billions of possibilities.

that's why it would by kind of hard to extract a meaning from names merely by their pronunciation- i don't know how ur friends did it. go ask them.