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Means "elegance, courtliness" in Japanese, derived from 宮 (miya) "palace, imperial court" and ぶ (bu), a verb-forming suffix meaning "to seem like, to have the quality of". Other combinations of kanji characters may be possible, and this name is popularly claimed on the internet to mean "beautiful night fire", which would make it a compound of Japanese 美 (mi) "beautiful", 夜 (ya) "night" and‎ 火 (hi) "fire" (note that the hi changes to bi as an instance of rendaku (連濁)). This was the former stage name of the male musician Miyavi (1981-).