Entry № 5040 · Japanese origin

Junko Junko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOON-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Pure child, obedient child"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "pure child, obedient child".

Junko (純子) combines jun (pure, genuine) and ko (child) — "pure child."

Junko Tabei (1939-2016) was the first woman to summit Mount Everest (1975) and the first to complete the Seven Summits.

Pure child. First woman to summit Everest.

The name in its native script.

純子
Transliteration
Junko
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒuːn.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Junko stands.

Junko 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.

Junkos before her.

Real people
Junko Tabei
First woman to summit Everest.
1939 – 2016
In fiction
Junko Enoshima
Character in Danganronpa.
2010 game

Names connected to Junko.

The number behind Junko.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Junko reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.