Anime Girl Names

Mikasa references Mount Mikasa, a mountain in Japan with three peaks, thought to look like bamboo hats. The Mikasa battleship was named after the mountain.

Cute and nicknamey girl name with a great meaning to boot.

Kiyomi is a Japanese name that means 'sacred and beautiful' or 'clean and beautiful.' It refers to a variety of citrus fruit and is gaining popularity for baby girls in the U.S., with just under 200 girls receiving the name in 2022. Kiyomi combines a meaningful and elegant definition with a unique cultural reference, making it a distinctive choice for parents.

The name of a character from Hiromu Arakawa’s Fullmetal Alchemist manga and anime series. She is a strong-willed teenage mechanic, who has consistently been ranked among the best female characters in anime.

Vivacious but lightweight.

No - not a creative spelling of Katy. This name, which can be used for boys or girls, means maple tree. Kaede is unusual in Japan although it has been gaining more popularity after it has been used for several anime and manga characters.

An Asian name not widely known in the West.

Sweet Japanese choice.

Japanese classic with optimistic meaning.

Kyōka Izumi was a 19th-century surrealist author. He was a man, but a female character in the anime series Bungo Stray Dogs was named after him in full.

A very popular girls' name in Japan with an unfortunate English pronunciation: picture a toddler with a hurt knee saying "owee."

Hanabi is the Japanese word for fireworks and is rarely given as a name to babies. The most famous Hanabi is Koko the Gorilla — "birth" name Hanabi-ko, or "fireworks child." Koko, known for her use of "Gorilla Sign Language," was born at the San Francisco Zoo on the 4th of July, hence the meaning of her name.

This female form of Tristan was featured on the reality-television show The Bachelorette, and has been rocketing up the charts as a new millennium Trisha.

A multicultural unisex choice that peaked for girls at the same time as Amy. Ami is also the French word for "friend."

Despite being etymologically unrelated, Aimi has a similar meaning to the name Amy, "beloved."

Popular name in Japan in its own right, but also as a nickname for Miyako or Makiko.

The Japanese equivalent of Violet, common among Millennial and Gen Z Japanese women.

A variation of Lileas and Lilian.

Unfamiliar Asian choice that can work for a parent in search of something really different.

A popular choice right now in Japan, where it recently ranked in the Top 10.