Her common 'Nohime' means 'a woman of high class from Mino Province' and it is believed that she went by the common name after she married, but there is a theory that the name was given in later years.
「濃姫」という通称は「美濃国出身の高貴な女性」という意味であり、結婚後のものとされるが、後世作られたものという説もある。