Mirai is a girl's name of Japanese origin meaning “future.” In 2024 it was given to 29 girls in the United States.
Mirai at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“future”
About the name Mirai
Mirai belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “future” — is the sense carried by its Japanese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Mirai first appears in Social Security records in 1999. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #3433 in 2020, and in 2024 29 babies received the name — 403 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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