Given name
Hiroko
“one who is noble and generous”
Hiroko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is noble and generous.”
Original Japanese氷呂子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who is noble and generous.”
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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hiroko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 328
- 0 boys · 328 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 19 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 1992. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,835 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.
Hiroko’s family of names
Hiroko has a related form in Hiriko. Hiroko has a related form in Hyriko. Hiroko has a related form in Hyroko.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 18
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hiroko
- Hiroko KuwataJapanese tennis playerborn 1990
- Hiroko KasaharaJapanese voice actressborn 1970
- Hiroko TakenishiJapanese writerborn 1929
- Hiroko NagataJapanese activist (1945–2011)
- Hiroko OyamadaJapanese writer (born 1983)
- Hiroko KuniyaJapanese television announcerborn 1957
- Hiroko MatsumotoJapanese model (1935-2003)
- Hiroko KonishiJapanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcherborn 1975
- Hiroko ŌtaJapanese politicianborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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