Given name
Kikuko
Kikuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese樹玖子
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
Kikuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 0 boys · 26 girls
- Most popular year
- 1931
- 6 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 6 in 1931. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 196 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.
Kikuko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Kikuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of きくこ. In English usage, Kikuko was borrowed from the Japanese form きくこ. In Japanese usage, Kikuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 喜久子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kikuko
- Kikuko InoueJapanese voice actress and narrator (born 1964)
- Kikuko, Princess TakamatsuJapanese princess (1911-2004); wife of Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu
- Kikuko TsumuraJapanese novelist and writerborn 1978
- Kikuko MikawaJapanese basketball player (born 1968)
- Kikuko KawakamiJapanese writer and poet1904–1985
- Kikuko Kanaicomposer (1911-1986)1906–1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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