Given name
Setsuko
Setsuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese雪子
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Setsuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 347
- 0 boys · 347 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 36 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 1945. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,063 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.
Setsuko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Setsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of せつこ. In Filipino usage, Setsuko was borrowed from the Japanese form せつこ. In Japanese usage, Setsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 節子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Setsuko
- Setsuko HaraJapanese actress (1920–2015)
- Setsuko, Princess ChichibuJapanese princess; wife of Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1909–1995)
- Setsuko SasakiJapanese volleyball playerborn 1944
- Setsuko InoueJapanese volleyball playerborn 1946
- Setsuko YoshidaJapanese volleyball player (1942-2014)
- Setsuko ShinodaJapanese author and novelistborn 1955
- Setsuko TsumuraJapanese writer and novelistborn 1928
- Migishi SetsukoJapanese artist (1905-1999)
- Setsuko ThurlowJapanese anti–nuclear weapons activist (1932-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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