Given name

Mutsuko

Mutsuko is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese睦子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Mutsuko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Mutsuko through the years

Babies since 1880
18
0 boys · 18 girls
Most popular year
1932
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246819401960198020002025Highest share 19320.0
Mutsuko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1923–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1938. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1932. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 206 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.

Mutsuko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Mutsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of むつこ. In Japanese usage, Mutsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 睦子.

Walk Mutsuko’s family in the name graph

Mutsuko睦子むつこ

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Mutsuko

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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