Entry № 9385 · Japanese origin

Setsuko Setsuko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SETS-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Gentle child, season child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "gentle child, season child".

Setsuko (節子) combines setsu (season, virtue, integrity) and ko (child) — "gentle child" or "child of integrity."

Setsuko Hara (1920-2015) was the iconic Japanese actress of Ozu's films.

Gentle child. Ozu's iconic actress.

The name in its native script.

節子
Transliteration
Setsuko
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɛt.suː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Setsuko stands.

Setsuko 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.

Setsukos before her.

Real people
Setsuko Hara
Iconic Japanese actress of Ozu films.
1920 – 2015
In fiction
Setsuko
Sister in Grave of the Fireflies.
1988 anime

Names connected to Setsuko.

The number behind Setsuko.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Setsuko reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.