Given name
Shizuko
Shizuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese志津子
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shizuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 620
- 0 boys · 620 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 43 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 8 in 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 43 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 568 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.
Shizuko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Shizuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of しずこ. In Portuguese usage, Shizuko was borrowed from the Japanese form しずこ. In Japanese usage, Shizuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 静子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Shizuko
- Shizuko KasagiJapanese singer, actress(1914-1985)
- Wakamatsu ShizukoJapanese writer and translator (1864-1896)
- Shizuko HoshiJapanese American actressborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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