Given name
Kazuko
Kazuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Portuguese.
Original Japanese和香
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kazuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 398
- 0 boys · 398 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 63 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 1945. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 63 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,846 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.
Kazuko’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Kazuko was borrowed from the Japanese form かずこ. In Japanese usage, Kazuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳寿子. In Japanese usage, Kazuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 加寿子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kazuko
- Kazuko HironakaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Kazuko SawamatsuJapanese tennis playerborn 1951
- Kazuko TakatsukasaJapanese former princess; daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun (1929–1989)
- Kazuko SugiyamaJapanese actress and voice actressborn 1947
- Kazuko YoshiyukiJapanese actress and essayist (1935-2025)
- Kazuko ShirakawaJapanese actress (born 1947)
- Kazuko ShiraishiJapanese poet (1931–2024)
- Kazuko Ito-YamaizumiJapanese table tennis player (1935–2024)
- Kazuko KōriJapanese politicianborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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