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Miho

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Miho has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Miho, 2006

1 in 791,000

Miho over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miho: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Japanese and Serbo-Croatian

What Miho means

Miho has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Origin, language, and formation

Miho is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Japanese and Serbo-Croatian.

Miho comes through Japanese みほ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mike and Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Miho is pronounced /mǐːxo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 girls were recorded with the name Miho between 1974 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1993; its best national rank was #8,341 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Miho?

Miho had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miho sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miho. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mihos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miho was born before 1993 — so the typical Miho is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
69.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 69.5% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Miho rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (10)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,341
1974

Spellings of Miho

Miho is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 62.7% against Miho's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Miho around the world

Where Miho ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2016–2016
    #6,788
    in 2016

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Miho by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,341
1974
Peak year
1993
10 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miho

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MihaMihraMihiraMihrimahMihikaMihaelaMiheekaRihoShihoMihirareddy

Sibling names for Miho

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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