Entry № 6596 · Japanese origin

Masako Masako — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-SAH-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"The Nun Shogun (Hojo Masako)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "the nun shogun (hojo masako)".

Hojo Masako (1156-1225) was the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Shogun of Japan.

The Nun Shogun (Hojo Masako) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

政子
Transliteration
Masako
Pronunciation
/ məˈsɑː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Masako stands.

Masako 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.

Masakos before her.

Real people
Hojo Masako
The Nun Shogun.
1156 – 1225
Empress Masako
Current Empress of Japan.
born 1963
In fiction
Masako
Azuma Kagami.

Names connected to Masako.

The number behind Masako.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Masako reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.