As some of you may already know, the characters names usually mean something else. Have you wondered if all those vegetable name puns were just a coincidence? Well they are not. If you rearrange the name Saiya-jin by taking out the middle and put it at the front, it reads Yasaijin which means 'vegetable people.' Learn more about the Saiya-jin names as well as the other Dragonball characters names below.
Goku - Air (Kakarott - Carrot)
Gohan - meal or rice
Goten - sky
Raditz - Radish
Bardock - ????
Vegeta - vegetable
Trunks - mens underwear
Bra - Take a guess.
Paragas - asparagas
Broli - Broccoli
Nappa - is a kind of Cabbage
Toma - tomato
Celipa - paceli - parseley
Yamcha - a name for dim sum
Puar or Pooalu - a Chinese tea
Tenshinhan(Tien) - Tenshien rice
Chaozu - Pot stickers
Oolong - another type of tea
Kuririn - Chestnut
Piccolo - a musical instrument
Yajirobe - a little toy in Japan
ChiChi - slang for breasts
Bulma - name for a womans undergarment
Briefs - mens underwear
Karin-tou - cookie like snack food
Cell - he was made up of the cells of all of the other Z warriors
Mr. Satan - self explanatory
Videl - rearrange to spell devil
Shapner - sharpener
Iresa - eraser
Zarbon - zabon - exotic fruit
Dodoria - dorian - exotic fruit
Lunch - self explanatory
Marron - chestnut in french
Ginyu - gyunyu - milk
Rikum - kurim - cream
Gurudo - guruto - yogurt
Baata - bataa - butter
Jiisu - chiisu - cheese
Freeza - freezer
K. Cold - cold
Coola - cooler
Nameks - slug
Katattsu - snail
Dende - slang for snail
Cargo - escargo
Nail - (s)nail
