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美香
みか
Mika
MEE-kah · a female name
“Beauty + fragrance”
Elegant · Refined · Memorable
The story of Mika
The classic Mika — beauty that arrives as fragrance.
Mika travels exceptionally well — it reads as a name in half the world's languages. In Japan it flourished in the Showa 50s and stays quietly elegant.
Kanji by kanji
beauty
The classic kanji of beauty, found in countless beloved girls' names.
fragrance
The kanji of scent — the 'ka' of incense and blossoming air.
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About 美香
美香 defines elegance the Japanese way: sensed before seen, remembered after gone. A spelling that has aged like good incense.
Popularity in Japan
A big name of the 1970s and 1980s, now carried by accomplished women in their prime.
Through the decades
A late-Showa favorite with lasting polish.
Deep dive
美 (beauty) opens countless Japanese girls' names, but Mika finishes it with scent: 香, fragrance. Beauty you notice before you see it — the most Japanese kind.
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