Given name

Tatsuko

Tatsuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.

Original Japanese竜子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tatsuko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese たつこ (Tatsuko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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
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Too few births to compare
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Tatsuko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1916–2025, 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 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.

Walk Tatsuko’s family in the name graph

Tatsuko竜子立子たつこ辰子

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 Tatsuko

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

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