English Wikipedia on [Mira (given
name)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_\(given_name\)) says it's a Japanese
name, but no real-life Japanese person with known written format for their
name in Japanese is shown.

All Japanese examples are fictional and in kana, no kanji.

So is "Mira" a name used by real Japanese people? If so, do they also only use
kana? Or is there at least one person that uses kanji? If the latter, what's
their name mean?
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Does "Mira" mean anything as a Japanese name?
ミラ is not a common traditional Japanese name. There is no typical kanji
associated with this name (although [it's
easy](https://b-name.jp/%E8%B5%A4%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93%E5%90%8D%E5%89%8D%E8%BE%9E%E5%85%B8/f/yomi/%E3%81%BF%E3%82%89/289191)
to assign kanji that can be read as みら). You may find ミラ in stage names and
fictional characters' names, but they are typically written in katakana, and I
believe most of them are ones inspired by foreign names. ありす happens to be
part of a traditional Japanese surname (see [this
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/13901/5010)), but I'm not aware
of such an interesting coincidence regarding ミラ.
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