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Japanese given name

Mami

マミ

Female-classified given-name records.

まみマミMami
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Reference coverage

Extended source depth

This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.

Distinct recorded spellings108

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows109

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Mami

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingまみ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマミ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMami

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Mami. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationま · み

2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

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Meaning by written form

What can Mami mean?

A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Mami”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings10

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings2

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

マミ

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
マKana characterミKana character
Kana-only spelling

まみ

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
まKana characterみKana character
Kanji spelling

万三

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000三three
Kanji spelling

万実

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000実reality, truth, seed
Kanji spelling

万己

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000己self
Kanji spelling

万弥

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000弥all the more, increasingly
Kanji spelling

万彌

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000彌extensive, full, fill
Kanji spelling

万望

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000望ambition, full moon, hope
Kanji spelling

万水

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000水water
Kanji spelling

万満

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000満full, fullness, enough
Kanji spelling

万美

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000美beauty, beautiful
Kanji spelling

万見

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
万ten thousand, 10,000見see, hopes, chances

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 109. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.

How to read these meanings

The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.

Reading profile

How Mami is represented

These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.

Recorded kana readings2

まみ · マミ

Kanji-based spellings107

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters2

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae2

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

Kana-only2

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms1

recorded spelling

2-kanji forms105

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms1

recorded spelling

JMnedict classification evidence

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name + surname

まみ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms108

109 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms4

4 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 109

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
まみMami108109 source rowsfemale 109source rows · distinct forms: female 10844 source rows
まみMami00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —00 source rows

Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Mami

This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data107

6–36 strokes observed span

Median total strokes19

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms106

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution
ReadingRomanizationMoraeForms
まみMami2109
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
麻実2 analyzed forms

Shown only when the same adjacent two-kanji sequence occurs in at least two analyzed source forms. Open a sequence in Kanji Pair Research for corpus co-occurrence context.

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

44 of 80 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.

Written forms checked80

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings44

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading35

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set26

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Mami spellings

Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
真true, reality, Buddhist sect232300010さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
麻hemp, flax, numb181800011あ, あざ, おJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
美beauty, beautiful17017009はる, よし, よしみ, りJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
実reality, truth, seed12011108ぐみ, さねJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
万ten thousand, 10,00011110003かず, ま, ゆるJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
茉jasmine11110008みJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
満full, fullness, enough8620012ま, みち, みつ, みつるJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
未un-, not yet, hitherto707005—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
眞truth, reality, Buddhist sect7700010さな, ち, まこ, まさ +1Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
海—6060010—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
磨grind, polish, scour6600016おさむJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
魅fascination, charm, bewitch5050015—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8

Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.

Exact writing research map

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

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Exact written form

マミ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mamiまみ
Characters in order
マKanaミKana
Exact written form

まみ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mamiまみ · this page
Characters in order
まKanaみKana
Exact written form

万三

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KazumitsuかずみつMamiまみ · this pageManzōまんぞう
Characters in order
万ten thousand, 10,000三three
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
万三哉Given name · Masaya · まさや万三子Given name · Mamiko · まみこ万三江Given name · Mamiko · まみこ

The exact sequence 万三 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 109. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Mami spellings

Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.

真true, reality, Buddhist sect23 of 109 analyzed forms麻hemp, flax, numb18 of 109 analyzed forms美beauty, beautiful17 of 109 analyzed forms実reality, truth, seed12 of 109 analyzed forms万ten thousand, 10,00011 of 109 analyzed forms茉jasmine11 of 109 analyzed forms満full, fullness, enough8 of 109 analyzed forms未un-, not yet, hitherto7 of 109 analyzed forms眞truth, reality, Buddhist sect7 of 109 analyzed forms海Kanji record6 of 109 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Mami

109 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まみ. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.

マミ

マミ · Mami

Katakana マミMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

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まみ

まみ · Mami

Katakana マミMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

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Showing the first 80 spelling/reading records out of 109 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 108 distinct written spellings.

Spelling comparator

Compare Mami forms side by side

Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
マミマミKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
まみまみKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
万三まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 三 — three6All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万実まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 実 — reality, truth11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万己まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 己 — self6All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万弥まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 弥 — all the more, increasingly11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万彌まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 彌 — extensive, full20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万望まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 望 — ambition, full moon14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万水まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 水 — water7All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万満まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 満 — full, fullness15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万美まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 美 — beauty, beautiful12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万見まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 見 — see, hopes10All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
万魅まみ万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 魅 — fascination, charm18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
午実まみ午 — noon, sign of the horse · 実 — reality, truth12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
午美まみ午 — noon, sign of the horse · 美 — beauty, beautiful13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
天海まみ天 — heavens, sky · 海14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified

The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.

What does Mami mean?

There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.

Related readings

More names beginning with まみ

Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.

Given name · female · limited reference

Mamiko

90 recorded spellings

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Mamika

31 recorded spellings

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Mamia

26 recorded spellings

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Mamie

17 recorded spellings

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Mamina

17 recorded spellings

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Mamiya

16 recorded spellings

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Mamī

13 recorded spellings

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Mamimi

7 recorded spellings

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Mamiri

7 recorded spellings

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Mamiyo

7 recorded spellings

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Mamizu

7 recorded spellings

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Mamido

5 recorded spellings

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Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Mami

These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.

Given-name relationship

Mayumi

万実未海満眞真美茉麻

10 shared kanji · 161 matching source-recorded spellings

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Masumi

万実未海満眞真美茉麻

10 shared kanji · 159 matching source-recorded spellings

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Manami

万実未海満眞真美茉麻

10 shared kanji · 151 matching source-recorded spellings

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Masami

万実未海満眞真美茉麻

10 shared kanji · 147 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mamiko

万実未海満眞真美茉麻

10 shared kanji · 81 matching source-recorded spellings

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Marin

万実海満眞真美茉麻

9 shared kanji · 64 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mima

実未海満眞真美茉麻

9 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings

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Marika

万未海満眞真茉麻

8 shared kanji · 88 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mayu

万実満眞真美茉麻

8 shared kanji · 72 matching source-recorded spellings

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Harumi

万実未海真美茉麻

8 shared kanji · 65 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mariko

万実海満眞真茉麻

8 shared kanji · 64 matching source-recorded spellings

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Maria

万海満眞真美茉麻

8 shared kanji · 58 matching source-recorded spellings

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Exact reading

Search まみ

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Ma / ま

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真 — true, reality

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麻 — hemp, flax

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Evidence on this page

What each source establishes

JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.

Source boundary

The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.

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