Entry № 5665 · Other origin

Kyoko Kyoko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KYO-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mirror child / capital child"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "mirror child / capital child".

Kyoko is from the Japanese 京子 / 鏡子 (Kyōko — kyō capital/mirror + ko child — capital child, mirror child). Kyoko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese Imperial heritage.

Mirror child / capital child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

京子
Transliteration
Kyōko
Pronunciation
/ ˈkjoʊ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kyoko stands.

Kyoko 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.

Kyokos before her.

Real people
Kyoko Hamaguchi
Japanese Olympic wrestler + 2004 Athens bronze + 2008 Beijing bronze.
born 1978
In fiction
Kyoko Mori
Japanese-American writer + Shizuko's Daughter 1993.
Shizuko's Daughter

Names connected to Kyoko.

The number behind Kyoko.

5

The Seeker

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