Miho

Miho

Pronunciation	Japanese: [miho], Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mixo]
Gender	Female (Japanese), Male (Croatian)
Origin
Word/name	Japanese, Croatian
Meaning	ear of rice, truth, beauty, care, future step, sail, walk
Region of origin	Japanese, Croatian
Other names
Related names	Mihoko

Miho (美穂, みほ, ミホ) is a feminine Japanese given name and a masculine Croatian name. It can have many different meanings in Japanese depending on the kanji used.

Possible Japanese writings

Miho can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 実穂, "truth, ear of grain"
• 美穂, "beauty, ear of grain"
• 美保, "beauty, care"
• 未歩, "future (part of the word 未来), step"
• 美帆, "beauty, sail"
• 美歩, "beauty, walk"

The name can also be written in hiragana "みほ" or katakana　“ミホ”.

People with the name

• 　Miho Adachi (足立 美穂, born 1979), Japanese sprint canoeist
• Miho Arakawa (born 1987), Japanese voice actress
• Miho Bošković (born 1983), Croatian water polo player
• Miho Dukov (born 1955), former Bulgarian wrestler
• Miho Fujima (born 1978), Japanese actress
• 　Miho Fukuhara (福原 美穂, born 1987), Japanese singer
• Miho Fukumoto (born 1983) Japanese football player
• 　Miho Hamada (濱田 美穂), Japanese table tennis player
• Miho Hatori (born 1970), Japanese singer and songwriter
• Miho Hazama (挾間 美帆, born 1986), Japanese composer and jazz musician
• Miho Iwata (born 1962), Japanese performance artist, scenographer and choreographer
• Miho Kaneda, former Japanese football player
• Miho Kanno (born 1977), Japanese actress and J-Pop singer
• Miho Karasawa (born 1983), Japanese J-Pop singer
• Miho Kawabe (born 1974), Japanese former synchronized swimmer
• Miho Klaić (1829-1896), Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia
• Miho Komatsu (born 1974), former Japanese pop singer-songwriter
• Miho Konishi (born 1977), Japanese actress
• Miho Manya (born 1996), Japanese football player
• 　Miho Matsuoka (松岡 美保, born 1953), Japanese women's basketball player
• Miho Miyazaki (born 1993), Japanese idol singer, AKB48 member
• Miho Morikawa (born 1968), Japanese singer and model
• Miho Mosulishvili (born 1962), Georgian writer and playwright
• Miho Murata (born 1970), retired Japanese female volleyball player
• Miho Nakayama (born 1970), Japanese actress, model, and a former J-Pop idol singer
• Miho Nikaido (born 1966), Japanese actress
• Miho Nishida (born 1992), Filipino born Japanese actress
• Miho Nonaka (born 1997), Japanese climber
• Miho Obana (born 1970), Japanese shōjo manga artist
• 　Miho Okasaki (岡咲 美保, born 1998), Japanese voice actress
• 　Miho Otani (大谷 三穂, born 1971), Japanese military officer
• Miho Shiraishi (born 1978), Japanese actress
• 　Miho Shishiuchi (獅子内 美帆, born 1992), Japanese ice hockey player
• Miho Takagi (born 1962), Japanese actress and essayist
• Miho Takahashi (born 1992), Japanese swimmer
• Miho Takai (高井 美穂, born 1971), Japanese politician
• Miho Tanaka (born 1976), Japanese female badminton player
• Miho Teramura (born 1994), Japanese swimmer
• Miho Watanabe
  • Miho Watanabe, female Japanese popular music artist, actor, and dancer
  • Miho Watanabe, one of the members of Hinatazaka46
• 　Miho Yamada (山田 美穂, born 1973), Japanese voice actress
• 　Miho Yamada (gymnast) (山田 海蜂, born 1973), Japanese rhythmic gymnast
• 　Miho Yoshikawa (吉川 美穂, born 1993), Japanese cyclist

Fictional characters

• Miho Azuki, character from the manga/anime series, Bakuman.
• Miho (Sin City), character from the graphic novel series, Sin City
• Miho Kirishima, Kamen Rider Femme from the tokusatsu TV series Kamen Rider Ryuki
• Miho a character from the Saint Seiya manga/anime
• Miho Nosaka, character from the manga/anime series, Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Miho Odagiri, character from Hot Gimmick
• Miho Maruyama, character from Ojamajo Doremi
• Miho Tohya, character from Megatokyo
• Miho Amakata, character from Free!
• Miho Mukai, character from Noein
• Miho Shinjo, a character from the videogame Front Mission 3
• Miho is the female lead of anime Fancy Lala
• Miho Nishizumi, a character from Girls und Panzer
• Miho Kohinata, a character from The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls
• Miho Karasuma, a character from Witch Hunter Robin
• Miho, a character from the videogame Vainglory
• Miho, a creature character from the videogame Monster Super League

See also

• 　Miho, Ibaraki, village in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
• 　Miho Museum in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• 　Miho-Yonago Airport (美保飛行場), sometimes referred to as Yonago Airport in Tottori Prefecture, Japan
• 　Miho no Matsubara (三保の松原) in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan