Given name
Shigeko
Shigeko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Portuguese.
Original Japanese茂子
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shigeko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 325
- 0 boys · 325 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 27 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 6 in 1936. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 423 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.
Shigeko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Shigeko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of しげこ. In French usage, Shigeko was borrowed from the Japanese form しげこ. In Japanese usage, Shigeko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 成子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Shigeko
- Shigeko Higashikuniformer Japanese princess (1925–1961)
- Shigeko KagawaJapanese supercentenarian (1911-2026)
- Shigeko YukiJapanese writer1900–1969
- Shigeko KubotaJapanese artist (1937–2015)
- Uryū ShigekoJapanese educator (1862-1928)1861–1928
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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