Given name
Reiko
“one who is thankful”
Reiko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is thankful.”
Original Japanese麗子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who is thankful.”
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 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Reiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 690
- 19 boys · 671 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −33%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,168 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.
Reiko’s family of names
Reiko has a related form in Rei. In Japanese usage, Reiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 令子. In Japanese usage, Reiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 怜子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 麗子original script · Japanese
- 礼子original script · Japanese
- 玲子original script · Japanese
- 怜子original script · Japanese
- 黎子original script · Japanese
- 鈴子original script · Japanese
- 霊子original script · Japanese
- 零子original script · Japanese
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People named Reiko
- Reiko AylesworthAmerican actressborn 1972
- Rei SakumaJapanese voice actressborn 1965
- Reiko YoshidaJapanese screenwriter (born 1967)
- Reiko NakamuraJapanese swimmerborn 1982
- Reiko ChibaJapanese actress and singerborn 1975
- Reiko TakagiJapanese voice actressborn 1973
- Reiko IkeJapanese actressborn 1953
- Reiko ShiotaJapanese badminton playerborn 1983
- Reiko KurodaJapanese chemistborn 1947
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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