Entry № 11842 · Japanese origin

Yuko Yuko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOO-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Gentle child"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "gentle child".

Yuko Mitsuya (born 1958) is the Japanese politician; Yuko Ono (Yoko's variant) is the famous artist.

Gentle child. The Japanese refinement.

The name in its native script.

優子
Transliteration
Yūko
Pronunciation
/ ˈjuː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yuko stands.

Yuko 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.

Yukos before her.

Real people
Yuko Mitsuya
Japanese politician.
born 1958
In fiction
Yuko
Common in anime.

Names connected to Yuko.

The number behind Yuko.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yuko reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.