Given name
Natsuko
“child born during the summer”
Natsuko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “child born during the summer.”
Original Japanese奈津子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “child born during the summer.”
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 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Natsuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 155
- 0 boys · 155 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 17 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 9 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 428 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.
Natsuko’s family of names
Natsuko has a related form in Natsumi. Natsuko has a related form in Natsu. In Japanese usage, Natsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of なつこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Natsuko
- Natsuko HaraJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Natsuko AsoJapanese actress and singerborn 1990
- Natsuko KuwataniJapanese voice actressborn 1978
- Natsuko ImamuraJapanese writerborn 1980
- Hashimoto Natsukosecond concubine of Emperor Meiji1856–1873
- Natsuko KaharaJapanese actress1921–1991
- Natsuko TakahashiJapanese screenwriter
- Natsuko YokosawaJapanese owarai tarentoborn 1990
- Natsuko HaraJapanese voice actressborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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