Given name
Yasuko
Yasuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Portuguese.
Original Japanese泰子
Meaning & origin
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
Yasuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 294
- 0 boys · 294 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 22 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 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,295 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.
Yasuko’s family of names
In English usage, Yasuko was borrowed from the Japanese form やすこ. In Japanese usage, Yasuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 寧子. In Japanese usage, Yasuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 康子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yasuko
- Yasuko TajimaJapanese Olympic swimmerborn 1981
- Yasuko NambaJapanese mountain climber (1949–1996)
- Yasuko KonoeJapanese former princess; eldest child of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, and Yuriko, Princess Mikasaborn 1944
- Yasuko MatsuyukiJapanese actressborn 1972
- Yasuko SawaguchiJapanese actressborn 1965
- Yasuko TomitaJapanese actressborn 1969
- Kaya-no-inEmpress consort of Japan1095–1156
- Yasuko AoikeJapanese manga artistborn 1948
- Yasuko EndōJapanese actress1968–1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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