Entry № 9567 · Other origin

Shigeko Shigeko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shee-GEH-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Luxuriant child (Japanese + Shigeko Sasamori Hiroshima Maiden peace activist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "luxuriant child (japanese + shigeko sasamori hiroshima maiden peace activist)".

Shigeko is from the Japanese 茂子 / 重子 (Shigeko — shige luxuriant/lush/abundant + ko child — luxuriant child, abundant child). Shigeko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese heritage.

Luxuriant child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

茂子
Transliteration
Shigeko
Pronunciation
/ ʃiːˈɡɛ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shigeko stands.

Shigeko 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.

Shigekos before her.

Real people
Shigeko Sasamori
Hiroshima Maiden + hibakusha + peace activist + Mount Sinai Hospital 1955.
1932 – 2024
In fiction
Shigeko
Japanese luxuriant child.

Names connected to Shigeko.

The number behind Shigeko.

2

The Peacemaker

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