Entry № 5555 · Japanese origin

Kokoro Kokoro — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koh-KOH-roh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Heart / mind / spirit (Japanese philosophical concept)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "heart / mind / spirit (japanese philosophical concept)".

Kokoro is from the Japanese 心 (kokoro — heart, mind, spirit). Princess Kokoro — modern Japanese naming.

Heart / mind / spirit.

The name in its native script.

心
Transliteration
Kokoro
Pronunciation
/ koʊˈkoʊ.roʊ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Kokoro stands.

Kokoro 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.

Kokoros before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Kokoro (Sōseki)
Iconic 1914 Japanese novel.
1914

Names connected to Kokoro.

The number behind Kokoro.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kokoro reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.