66 Japanese Girl Names That Start With M & Meanings

Japanese is the 13th most commonly spoken language in the entire world.

It consists of three written alphabets: Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana. A kanji can have more than ten possible readings. I have selected 66 Japanese girl names that start with the letter M.

List Of 66 Japanese Girl Names That Start With M:

Miku

Miku combines mi (beautiful) and Ku (long time or sky). Hatsune Miku is a mascot for a Vocaloid software voicebank.

Mayu

Mayu means cocoon (繭) or “true gentleness” (真優).

Maaya

Maaya (”pure” or ”true”) Sakamoto voiced Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII and Ciel in Black Butler.

Misaki

It is a feminine Japanese given name that signifies (depending on the different kanji characters) promontory, blossom, sand, or ocean. Ayame Misaki is an actress who played Miki in Cutie Honey: The Live.

Maho

Maho means ”true ear of grain” or ”true sail.”

Midori

Midori is symbolizing verdant or green. It originally represented freshness.

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Minako

Using different kanji characters, it means truth or beauty. Minako Aino is a character in the Sailor Moon series. You should also know that Minako is a member of the musical group Kome Kome Club.

Mitsuki

Mitsuki is a Japanese name that is generally used by women and means three, shine, moon, light, and rare.

Madoka

Circle, flower.

How to choose a Japanese name for your baby girl

Make sure the initials don’t spell anything unintentional.

Look up at the meanings.

Keep the first name short and vary the number of syllables in each name.

Check the name goes with your other children’s names

Megumi

It means blessing, grace. Megumi Ikeda is a Japanese former fencer and the recipient of the HEROs AWARD. Megumi also means love.

Mirei

Marvelous, young.

Makoto

”Sincerity.” Makoto Sumikawa is a Japanese actress who performed in the TV show Kage no Gundan. Makoto Tsumura is a voice actress known for her roles in Fullmetal Alchemist and Captain Tsubasa Road to 2002.

Momoka

Momoka is meaning ”peach flower.”

Mutsumi

To be harmonious.

Marina

In Japanese Marina means ”truth and village.” In Latin, it is meaning “of the sea” and is pronounced as ma-REE-na.

Minae

To bless, wise.

Mashiro

It is used by girls as well as boys, and it means excellent, white, ten thousand, true, and dance. Yuki Mashiro is a Japanese professional wrestler who debuted at New Ice Ribbon #985.
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In 1950 Machiko Kyo played the samurai’s wife in Kurosawa’s Rashomon. The name means ”child of the town.”

Miyako

Meaning beautiful night child, I love the pronunciation of Miyako. Miyako Yoshida is a Japanese ballet dancer who is the artistic director of the National Ballet of Japan.

Mifuyu

Mifuyu means ”splendid” and ”beautiful.”

Mika

Photographer and director Mika Ninagawa won the Kimura Ihei Award. It means “new moon” or “beautiful fragrance”.

Manami

Manami has a meaning that I love, ”beautiful truth” or ”a beautiful love.”

Mizuho

It is an ancient name in Japan. It means abundant rice. There are many celebrities with the name Mizuho. Mizuho Kusanagi is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series Yona of the Dawn.

Mahiru

Mahiru means unaltered, complete, accurate, pure, or truth.

Facts about the Japanese language

Certain sounds (such as “L”) don’t exist in Japanese.

Kanji are Japanese versions of Chinese characters. The Japanese language has 40,000 to 50,000 kanji characters.

The Tokyo accent is the most common Japanese dialect.

More than 130 million people speak Japanese.

Miki

Miki means beautiful hope, tree, noble, and chronicle.

Motoko

Motoko Obayashi is a retired volleyball player who competed in three Summer Olympics. It is meaning resourceful, child, fundamental, origin, or unadorned.

Mayuri

Cocoon, silk.

Michiko

It means “child of the path” and “beautiful wise child.” Amazing translation. Fashion designer Michiko Koshino has a restaurant in London. Michiko Godai is an actress with 14 credits on IMDb.

Miyu

“Superior beauty” or “beautiful gentleness”.

Misuzu

Misuzu is another name that I like on this list and means “beautiful bell.”

Maiko

”Young dancer” or ”dancing child.”

Mitsuko

There are many celebrities named Mitsuko (“child of light”) including airline executive Mitsuko Tottori, actress Mitsuko Mori, gymnast Mitsuko Kandori, singer Mitsuko Horie, and more.

Mamiko

“Ma” (fullness, hemp, truth, reality) and “Miko” (full child, child of truth).

Mizuki

”Auspicious hope.” Nana Mizuki is a Japanese voice actress who, in 2001, released her album, Supersonic Girl. Actress Alisa Mizuki married Koji Aoyama in 2015. She was also the inspiration behind the Sailor Moon character Rei Hino.

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Miho

Miho means beauty, walk, sail, care, and ear of grain.

Mariko

Mariko is symbolizing ”child,” ”genuine,” ”real,” and ”long distance.”

Mai

”Dance or to dance.” Singer Mai Kuraki has a Guinness World Record for the most theme songs recorded for one anime series, Detective Conan.

Masumi

True purity.

Moeka

Moeka Minami played for the Italian club Roma. It means ”budding flower.”

Miori

Miori is symbolizing beautiful fabric or beautiful weave.

Mana

Dance, truth, affection, and love are the meanings of Mana. It is also found in Iran where it means ”everlasting.”

Miyoko

“Beautiful generations child”.

Mio

Mio’s meanings are from 美 (beauty) with 桜 (cherry blossom) or 緒 (thread, cord). It is pronounced as MEE-oh.

Mao

Skater Mao Asada won the 2010 Olympic silver as well as three World titles (2008, 2010, 2014), and is the first woman to make three triple axels in a single competition. Written 真央, it combines 真 (truth) with 央 (center).

Miu

“Beautiful feather.”

Mei

Mei combines 芽 (that means ”a sprout” or ”a bud”) and 衣 (”clothing”).

Momoko

”Peach child.” Momoko Sakura is the creator of Chibi Maruko-chan, a series she based on her own 1970s childhood.

Momo

It means peach. Momo no Sekku, the Peach Festival, is on 3 March.

Maki

Maki Goto joined Morning Musume at 13 as the group’s only third-generation member. Meanings include “linen, precious” and “true, precious”.

Mari

Mari is the flower jasmine.

Manaka

“The middle, the center.”

Miwa

”Three, harmony”. In 2011 singer-songwriter Miwa had her debut album Guitarissimo reach #1 on the Oricon chart.

Minori

”Harvest” or ”truth.”

Minami

It is meaning “the south sea.” Minami Takayama is best known for voice acting in Honkai Impact 3rd and Detective Conan.

Miyuki

“Deep snow,” or “beautiful fortune.” Yuki is a short form.

Masako

Masako is made of 雅 (”elegance”) 子 (that means ”child”). Masako Owada earned an economics degree from Harvard and married Crown Prince Naruhito. She became Empress of Japan in 2019.

Michiru

Michiru is symbolizing ”to be mature” or ”to be full.”

Miyabi

”Refinement.”

Meiko

Actress Meiko Kaji starred in Lady Snowblood in 1973 and sang its theme, “Shura no Hana.” It means “bright child.”

Mina

Mine (“apple tree / fruit tree”) is a diminutive of Minako and Minami. MEE-na.

Momiji

At the 2020 Tokyo Games, Momiji Nishiya was age 13 when she won the first Olympic gold in women’s street skateboarding. It means ”red leaves” or “autumn leaves”.

Mikako

“Fragrant, beautiful child.”

Mizue

”Beautiful water.” Mizue Hoshi competed in the women’s slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Murasaki

Murasaki (”violet” or ”purple”) Shikibu has this as a nickname and wrote The Tale of Genji around the year 1000. You will not find a stronger literary namesake anywhere else on this list.

Mutsuki

”Month of affection.”