Given name
Masako
“child of justice”
Masako is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “child of justice.”
Original Japanese宜子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “child of justice.”
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 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Masako through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 821
- 0 boys · 821 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 58 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 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 58 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,086 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.
Masako’s family of names
Masako has a related form in Maeko. In Japanese usage, Masako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 万紗子. In Japanese usage, Masako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 宜子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 10
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 宜子original script · Japanese
- 真沙子original script · Japanese
- 真子original script · Japanese
- 晶子original script · Japanese
- 政子original script · Japanese
- 昌子original script · Japanese
- 雅子original script · Japanese
- 万紗子original script · Japanese
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People named Masako
- Empress Masakoempress consort of Japanborn 1963
- Masako YoshidaJapanese association football playerborn 1957
- Hōjō Masakopolitical leader of Kamakura shogunate1157–1225
- Masako HozumiJapanese speed skaterborn 1986
- Masako NozawaJapanese voice actress and actressborn 1936
- Tokugawa MasakoJapanese empress. daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada1607–1678
- Masako IshidaJapanese cross-country skierborn 1980
- Yi BangjaJapanese-Korean princess1901–1989
- Princess Masako TakedaJapanese princess; daughter of Emperor Meiji and Sono Sachiko (1888–1940)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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