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Kanji for Peach
The kanji most commonly used for "Peach" is 桃.
桃
Kanji that mean Peach
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桃
peach
Also associated with abundance, fruitfulness.
Onyomi: toh Kunyomi: momo 10 strokes Jōyō
桃 is the peach and the only character for it, read momo alone and tō in compounds. 白桃 is the white peach, 桃色 is pink — literally peach-color — and 胡桃 (kurumi) is the walnut, where 桃 has been borrowed for an unrelated fruit.
The cultural weight is worth knowing. In the East Asian tradition the peach wards off evil and stands for longevity, and that is the background to 桃太郎 (Momotarō), the boy born from a peach who defeats the ogres. 桃の節句 is the Peach Festival on 3 March, the girls’ festival now usually called ひな祭り.
As a name element 桃 is common and distinctly feminine — Momo, Momoko, Momoka — and it reads as soft and pretty rather than weighty. Keep it apart from the other spring trees: 桜 is cherry and 梅 is plum, and they are separate characters with separate associations.
Before you use Peach kanji
桃 is unambiguous, and in a Japanese name it reads as clearly feminine and light rather than serious. The color association travels with it — 桃色 is the ordinary word for pink — so expect the character to read as sweet rather than strong.