Entry № 3466 · Japanese origin

Fumiko Fumiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FOO-mee-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Literary child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "literary child".

Fumiko (文子) combines the Japanese fumi (writing, literature) and ko (child) — meaning "literary child" or "child of letters."

Fumiko Hayashi (1903-1951) was the major Japanese novelist; Fumiko Kaneko (1903-1926) was the Japanese anarchist.

Literary child. The Japanese novelist Hayashi.

The name in its native script.

文子
Transliteration
Fumiko
Pronunciation
/ ˈfuː.mi.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fumiko stands.

Fumiko 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.

Fumikos before her.

Real people
Fumiko Hayashi
Japanese novelist.
1903 – 1951
Fumiko Kaneko
Japanese anarchist.
1903 – 1926
In fiction
Fumiko
Common in Japanese fiction.

Names connected to Fumiko.

The number behind Fumiko.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fumiko reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.