Given name
Tatsuko
Tatsuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese竜子
Meaning & origin
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
Tatsuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 0 boys · 39 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 14 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 10 in 1928. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1916.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tatsuko’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Tatsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of たつこ. In English usage, Tatsuko was borrowed from the Japanese form たつこ. In Japanese usage, Tatsuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 立子.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tatsuko
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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