Entry № 692 · Japanese origin

Anko Anko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHN-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Anko Mitarashi - Naruto Special Jonin + Orochimaru's apprentice"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "anko mitarashi - naruto special jonin + orochimaru's apprentice".

Anko is from the Japanese anko (餡子 — sweet bean paste) — modern formation. Anko Mitarashi is a character in Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto (1999-2014) and Naruto: Shippuden manga and anime franchise. The Naruto manga has sold over 250 million copies worldwide. Anko is a Konohagakure Special Jonin and former apprentice of Orochimaru — bearing his Cursed Seal of Heaven on her neck.

Sweet bean paste (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

アンコ
Transliteration
Anko
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːn.koʊ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Anko stands.

Anko does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ankos before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Anko Mitarashi
Naruto Special Jonin.
1999

Names connected to Anko.

The number behind Anko.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anko reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.