Miho

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Miho is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Beautiful bay’. The Miho pine grove in Shimizu City is famous for its view of Mount Fuji.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 772◐
  • USUnited States1 in 286K
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.0K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
149 ●

89K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.8K ◐

Croatia

Meaning & origin●

‘Beautiful bay’. The Miho pine grove in Shimizu City is famous for its view of Mount Fuji.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Miho is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#2393,64384K rec.—listedMiho146
US United States—1,1643.7K rec.1 in 286K1.2KMiho149
HR Croatia—622—1 in 6.8K622——
GB United Kingdom—165148 rec.—listedMiho28
CA Canada—152151 rec.——Miho27
PH Philippines—7236 rec.——Miho12
FI Finland—690 rec.—49Miho3
SG Singapore—4544 rec.——Miho10
SE Sweden—4141 rec.1 in 249K41Miho5
IT Italy—3538 rec.——Miho4
BR Brazil—33—1 in 6.4M174——
RU Russia—2930 rec.——Miho12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese98K84%
  • Croatian5.5K5%
  • English5.4K5%
  • Turkish1.7K1%
  • Portuguese8881%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese97,72184%
Croatian5,4885%
English5,4375%
Turkish1,6591%
Portuguese8881%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Miho is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.4K records spelled Miho8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mihoe, Mihö, Mîhô

  • Croatian given name6.2K records spelled Miho13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Михо, Mikho, Mihó

  • Portuguese given name2.1K records spelled Miho4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Colombia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mihô

  • Turkish given name1.7K records spelled Miho4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Mihö, Mïhõ

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Miho is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of みほ

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.557.510201020152020202510 · 2008

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Miho in SURS — resident population given names, Slovenia, 2008–2025
Yearrecords
200810
20099
201010
20119
20128
20137
20147
20157
20167
20177
20186
20196
20206
20215
20225
20235
20245
20255

SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Miho Takagi, b. 1962Nakayama Miho, b. 1970Miho Yamada, b. 1973Miho Kiuchi, b. 1975Miho Yabe, b. 1977Miho Shiraishi, b. 1978Miho Hazama, b. 1986Miho Fukuhara, b. 1987Miliyah Kato, b. 1988Miho Takagi, b. 1994

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Miho
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,955
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021622#681
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021506—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—174#41,199
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—49#8,978
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—41#15,714
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202233—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—32#45,758
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028#10,955
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—28#88,550
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28#44,552
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—27#44,385

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miho?
We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Miho (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Miho have the most bearers?
Miho is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled miho.
How common is Miho compared with other names?
In Japan, Miho is the 23rd most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Miho a male or female name?
Miho is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Miho mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Beautiful bay’. The Miho pine grove in Shimizu City is famous for its view of Mount Fuji.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miho” — the 23rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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