Miu: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Miu – Origin: Japanese – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: MEE-oo


Miu is a Japanese girl's name. It appears in our list of 175+ Japanese Baby Girl Names With Beautiful Kanji Meanings.

Meaning & Origin of Miu

Origin: Japanese.

A common claim: Often glossed as 'beautiful feather' Actually: This matches only one of several possible kanji spellings (and even then more precisely reads 'sea feather,' 海羽); other spellings mean things like 'beautiful rain' or 'not yet born,' so there's no single fixed meaning.

Source: Wiktionary, Wikipedia.

How to Pronounce Miu

Phonetic: MEE-oo   IPA: /ˈmiːuː/

Popularity of Miu

Miu doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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