Entry № 5547 · Japanese origin

Komachi Komachi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koh-MAH-chee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Heian poet (one of the Six Immortal Poets)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "heian poet (one of the six immortal poets)".

Komachi (小町) means "little town" in Japanese. Ono no Komachi (c. 825-c. 900) was the most celebrated female poet of Heian Japan — one of the Rokkasen (Six Immortal Poets) of classical Japanese verse. Famous in her lifetime for legendary beauty, she became the archetype of the elegant woman in Japanese tradition — featured in countless Noh plays.

Komachi has become the Japanese byword for a beautiful woman.

Heian poet. One of the Six Immortal Poets; byword for beauty.

The name in its native script.

小町
Transliteration
Komachi
Pronunciation
/ koʊˈmɑː.tʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Komachi stands.

Komachi 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.

Komachis before her.

Real people
Ono no Komachi
Heian poet-beauty.
c. 825 – c. 900
In fiction
Komachi
Featured in Noh plays.

Names connected to Komachi.

The number behind Komachi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Komachi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.