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
Grammatical form

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

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.