Entry № 5485 · Other origin

Kimiko Kimiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kee-MEE-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Noble / pure child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "noble / pure child".

Kimiko is from the Japanese 君子 / 公子 (Kimiko — kimi lord/noble/sovereign + ko child — noble child, sovereign child). Kimiko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese Imperial + Confucian heritage.

Noble / pure child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

君子
Transliteration
Kimiko
Pronunciation
/ kiːˈmiː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kimiko stands.

Kimiko 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.

Kimikos before her.

Real people
Kimiko Date
Japanese tennis player + Wimbledon semifinalist 1996 + Asia's top-ranked WTA player 1990s.
born 1970
In fiction
Kimiko
Japanese noble child.

Names connected to Kimiko.

The number behind Kimiko.

5

The Seeker

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