Entry № 11816 · Japanese origin

Yoshiko Yoshiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-shee-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Good child, virtuous child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "good child, virtuous child".

Empress Kōjun of Japan (1903-2000), grandmother of the current Emperor Naruhito, was born Yoshiko.

Good child. Empress Kōjun of Japan.

The name in its native script.

良子
Transliteration
Yoshiko
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.ʃiː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yoshiko stands.

Yoshiko 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.

Yoshikos before her.

Real people
Empress Kōjun (Nagako Yoshiko)
Empress consort of Japan.
1903 – 2000
In fiction
Yoshiko
Common in Japanese fiction.

Names connected to Yoshiko.

The number behind Yoshiko.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yoshiko reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.