Entry № 4035 · Japanese origin

Hanako Hanako — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAH-nah-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Flower child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "flower child".

Princess Hanako (1940-2014) was a member of the Japanese imperial family.

Flower child. The classic Japanese.

The name in its native script.

花子
Transliteration
Hanako
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑː.nə.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hanako stands.

Hanako 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.

Hanakos before her.

Real people
Princess Hanako
Japanese imperial family.
1940 – 2014
In fiction
Hanako-san
Japanese urban legend.
Japanese folklore

Names connected to Hanako.

The number behind Hanako.

5

The Seeker

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