Baby name
RISING
🇧🇷 🇩🇪 🇯🇵 Mirai
/mee · RYE/
Meaning
“Future”
Japanese name meaning 'future'; used for girls and increasingly boys, carrying an optimistic forward-looking meaning rare in Western naming traditions.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Modern and aspirational; ages well as Japanese names gain international recognition.
The cultural moment.
Popular in Japan throughout the 2000s and 2010s; growing niche use in Brazilian Japanese diaspora communities.