He called himself 'Mokujiki Gyodo' at first, and later changed his name to 'Mokujiki Gogyo Bosatsu' in his seventy-sixth year and then further changed his name to 'Mokujiki Myoman Sennin' in his eighty-ninth year.
当初「木喰行道」と称したが、76歳の時に「木喰五行菩薩」、さらに89歳の時に「木喰明満仙人」と改めている。