lilitaly wrote in linguaphiles 🤔curious

Sulu?

This is stupid, but I have to know...

George Takei played Mr. Sulu on Star Trek. I'm not a Trekkie, but assuming that, like Takei, Mr. Sulu is of Japanese heritage, how likely is "Sulu" for a Japanese name? The letter L doesn't figure into transliteration from Japanese, does it?