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Teruko

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

Original Japanese照子

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Teruko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese てるこ (Teruko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Teruko through the years

Babies since 1880
405
0 boys · 405 girls
Most popular year
1927
45 babies
2025
0
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Teruko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1913–2025, 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 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 45 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 611 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.

Teruko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Teruko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of てるこ. In English usage, Teruko was borrowed from the Japanese form てるこ. In Japanese usage, Teruko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 照子.

Walk Teruko’s family in the name graph

Teruko照子輝子てるこTéruko

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Spellings & scripts 4

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

People named Teruko

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