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

Where it comes from

Shizuko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese しずこ (Shizuko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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
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Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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0204060192019401960198020002025Highest share 19140.0
Shizuko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1908–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

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.

Walk Shizuko’s family in the name graph

Shizuko靜子静子しずこ志津子

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 4

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Shizuko

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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