Given name
Chieko
“one who has grace and wisdom”
Chieko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who has grace and wisdom.”
Original Japanese千恵子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who has grace and wisdom.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chieko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 293
- 0 boys · 293 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,044 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chieko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Chieko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ちえこ. In Japanese usage, Chieko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千恵子. In Japanese usage, Chieko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千永子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Chieko
- Chieko HommaJapanese association football playerborn 1964
- Chieko BaishoJapanese actress and singerborn 1941
- Chieko OchiJapanese singerborn 1987
- Chieko AsakawaJapanese information engineer (1958-)
- Chieko HondaJapanese actress and voice actress (1963–2013)
- Chieko MatsubaraJapanese actressborn 1945
- Chieko Sugawarafencerborn 1976
- Chieko HosokawaJapanese manga artistborn 1935
- Chieko NakakitaJapanese actress (1926-2005)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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