Yes, I do mean Madori and not Midori. I was told by my mother that it means
'angel of the sky.' I haven't found anything on this, however. In my research,
I only found that it could be a variation of Midori and would therefore have
the same meaning, but even that was only a guess.

Does anyone have any idea what my name could mean or was it just made up? I
have come across many people with Madori as a last name, but never a first.
Any help would be appreciated,thank you!
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meaning names
Is the name Madori Japanese?
I've never heard of the name _Madori_ , but according to some Japanese baby
names websites (e.g.
[1](https://namejiten.com/%E5%A5%B3%E3%81%AE%E5%AD%90/%E3%81%BE/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A9%E3%82%8A),
[2](http://www.baby-name.jp/name134/134456.php)) it can be a Japanese female
given name. A(n incomplete) list of various _kanji_ representations is given
in the [ENAMDICT
database](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A9%E3%82%8A%20%23names) (via
jisho.org).

In any case, given the rōmaji transcription of a Japanese name (e.g. "Madori")
it's usually impossible to say whether a "meaning" is correct. This is because
names can be written with many different _kanji_ (Chinese characters) and
these determine the "meaning".

(Sometimes parts of the name are standard, which makes it possible to [make a
reasonable guess](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44536/1628) on its
meaning. For example, _-ko_ in _Akiko_ , _Mariko_ , _Yōko_ , etc. should be 子
"child".)

Some names also use _kanji_ , which are likely used for sound rather than
meaning:

> 麻都梨

This is likely a phonetic _kanji_ representation of _Madori_ , the individual
characters meaning "hemp", "metropolis" and "Japanese pear".

Others, like 万鳥 "a thousand birds" (actually 10,000), are probably intended to
carry more meaning.

I don't know which characters were used to derive the meaning "angel of the
sky"; I can't even make a far-fetched guess. In any case, without the _kanji_
representation, it's not possible to say anything definitive about the
"meaning" of a name.
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