Midori
Midori is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #106 in popularity, meaning Green.
What Midori means
Green.
Midori sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Midori comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Midori is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Midori?
Midori is ranked #106, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Midori
Two ideas meet in Midori: Color and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Midori
These share Midori's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Sienna — Reddish-brown earth; from Siena.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Emerald — The green gemstone.
- Ginger — Reddish; the lively spice.
- Livia — Olive; blue.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Rowan — Little red one; the rowan tree.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.