Given name
Takako
“a lofty child”
Takako is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “a lofty child.”
Original Japanese好子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a lofty child.”
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 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Takako through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 148
- 0 boys · 148 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 12 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 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,454 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.
Takako’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Takako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of たかこ. In English usage, Takako was borrowed from the Japanese form たかこ. In Japanese usage, Takako is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 享子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Takako
- Murasaki ShikibuJapanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)970–1100
- Takako TezukaJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Takako ShimazuJapanese former princess; youngest daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjunborn 1939
- Takako DoiJapanese politician (1928-2014)
- Takako MatsuJapanese actress and pop singer-songwriterborn 1977
- Takako Shiraiformer Zainichi Korean volleyball playerborn 1952
- Takashina no TakakoJapanese waka poet
- Takako FujiJapanese actressborn 1972
- Takako IrieJapanese actress (1911–1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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