Name profile

Kiyomi

feminine

90First-name usabilityHighly workable

Evidence coverageGood

This reflects the first name on its own. The full-name report scores the complete combination separately.

Japanese, typically written with kanji combining kiyo ("pure/clean" 清 or "holy/sacred" 聖) and mi ("beautiful" 美); exact meaning depends on the specific kanji chosen by the name-giver.

Why it works

short, simple spelling with no unusual letter patterns
spelling is short and predictable — rarely needs repeating

What to know

pronunciation varies somewhat by language — see "How it travels" for the specifics

Popularity

Uncommon — #765 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Kiyomi means A Japanese feminine given name typically composed of either 聖 (kiyo, "holy, sacred") or 清 (kiyo, "pure, clean") combined with 美 (mi, "beautiful"). As with most Japanese given names, the specific kanji are chosen by parents at registration, so the exact written meaning can vary between individuals sharing the same spoken name; a specialized Japanese kanji-naming reference independently corroborates 清美 ("clean/pure" + "beautiful, excellent") as the most common combination while cataloguing over a hundred other kanji combinations sharing the same reading.

A long-attested Japanese feminine given name, documented from at least the 8th century (Funya no Kiyomi, 693-770) through modern usage, including among Japanese-American individuals; also shares its reading with an unrelated citrus fruit cultivar and a Japanese village name, which are separate namesakes rather than sources of the personal name's meaning.

Documented origin: Japanese, typically written with kanji combining kiyo ("pure/clean" 清 or "holy/sacred" 聖) and mi ("beautiful" 美); exact meaning depends on the specific kanji chosen by the name-giver.

Well supportedTraced to a root word or element rather than a single, direct historical gloss.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

TurkishEnglish tends to reduce unstressed vowels; Turkish pronounces vowels at full value, so the ending may sound crisper to Turkish speakers than to English speakers.deterministic phonetic analysis

GermanEnglish tends to reduce unstressed vowels; German pronounces vowels at full value, so the ending may sound crisper to German speakers than to English speakers.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: high — based on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Popularity without panic

Uncommon — #765 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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Real-world considerations

Japanese given names are typically assigned kanji by the parents at registration, so no single fixed written meaning applies universally to every person named Kiyomi; the kiyo+mi ("pure/holy beauty") reading documented here is the commonly cited pattern, confirmed independently by a specialized Japanese kanji-naming reference, but it is not a guaranteed meaning for any specific individual. Pronunciation guidance and a peer-reviewed academic Japanese-onomastics cross-check were not obtained.