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実花
みか
Mika
MEE-kah · a female name
“Fruit + flower”
Genuine · Fruitful · Bright
The story of Mika
The fruitful Mika — a flower that keeps its promises.
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
fruit, substance
The kanji of things that ripen and come true — substance over show.
flower
The everyday kanji for flowers — friendly, familiar and loved by everyone.
How it feels
The full story
About 実花
実花 asks the bloom to bear fruit: beauty that ripens into substance. It suits a bright spirit who finishes what she starts.
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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