Given name

Hatsuko

Hatsuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.

Original Japaneseはつこ

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Hatsuko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese はつこ (Hatsuko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Hatsuko through the years

Babies since 1880
204
0 boys · 204 girls
Most popular year
1918
23 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0102030192019401960198020002025Highest share 19110.0
Hatsuko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1911–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 209 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.

Hatsuko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Hatsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of はつこ. In English usage, Hatsuko was borrowed from the Japanese form はつこ.

Walk Hatsuko’s family in the name graph

Hatsukoはつこ

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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