Entry № 10915 · Japanese origin

Umeko Umeko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-meh-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Plum blossom child (iconic Umeko Tsuda new ¥5,000 banknote 2024)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "plum blossom child (iconic umeko tsuda new ¥5,000 banknote 2024)".

Princess Umeko — Japanese heritage naming.

Plum blossom child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

梅子
Transliteration
Umeko
Pronunciation
/ ˈuː.mɛ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Umeko stands.

Umeko 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.

Umekos before her.

Real people
Tsuda Umeko
Iconic Japanese women's educator + new ¥5,000 banknote 2024.
1864 – 1929
In fiction
Umeko
Japanese plum blossom child.

Names connected to Umeko.

The number behind Umeko.

2

The Peacemaker

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