Entry № 6838 · Japanese origin

Mika Mika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Beautiful fragrance (Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "beautiful fragrance (mika brzezinski, morning joe co-host)".

Mika has independent roots across cultures: Japanese (美香 — "beautiful fragrance"); Finnish (a short form of Mikael / Michael); and Hebrew (מיכה — "Who is like God," feminine of Micah). Mika Hakkinen is male (Finnish F1 champion). Mika Newton — Ukrainian singer.

Beautiful fragrance (Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

美香
Transliteration
Mika
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mika stands.

Mika does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mikas before her.

Real people
Mika Brzezinski
American MSNBC journalist.
born 1967
In fiction
Mika
Various Japanese literature.

Names connected to Mika.

The number behind Mika.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mika reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.