Given name
Misako
Misako is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese味佐子
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Misako through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 85
- 0 boys · 85 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 12 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 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 563 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.
Misako’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Misako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of みさこ. In English usage, Misako was borrowed from the Japanese form みさこ. In Japanese usage, Misako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 実彩子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Misako
- Misako UnoJapanese musician and artist / AAAborn 1986
- Misako RenbutsuJapanese actressborn 1991
- Misako WatanabeJapanese actressborn 1932
- Misako TanakaJapanese actressborn 1959
- Misako SatakeJapanese basketball player (born 1951)
- Misako AndoOlympic softball playerborn 1971
- Misako KonnoJapanese actor and writerborn 1960
- Misako EnokiJapanese feministborn 1945
- Misako YasudaJapanese actressborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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