Yoko (name)

Yoko

Pronunciation	Yoko
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Region of origin	Japan
Other names
Related names	Yōko, Yōkō

Yoko, sometimes spelled as Yōko or Yohko is a Japanese given name.

People

Female

Yōko (ヨウコ, ようこ) is a female Japanese given name. Depending on the kanji used in writing it, it can have many different meanings. Some of these different meanings include:

• 瑛子, "crystal, sparkle of jewelry, child"
• 陽子, "sunshine, child"
• 洋子, "ocean, child"
• 遥子, "long ago, child"
• 楊子, "willow, child"
• 瑶子, "beautiful, child"
• 謡子, "noh (Japanese word for skill or talent), child"
• 八子, "eight, child"
• 羊子, "sheep, child"
• 要子, "vital, need, child"
• 暢子, "free, child"
• 陽子, "sunny, child"
• 容子, "glorious, child
• 葉子, "leaf, child"
• 曜子, "weekday, child"

The name Yoko is almost always written with the kanji character 子, which is the character for the final syllable ko, meaning child. the suffix ko also indicates that the name is female since the "ko" syllable is rarely, if ever, used in male names.

People who have the name "Yōko" include

• Yoko Akino (暢子, born 1957), Japanese actress
• Yōko Asada (葉子, born 1969), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Hikasa (陽子, born 1985), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Honda (陽子, born 1983), Japanese voice actress
• Yōko Honna (陽子 born 1979), Japanese voice actress
• Yoko Ishida (born 1973), Japanese singer
• Yōko Ishino (ようこ born 1968), Japanese actress and tarento
• Yoko Kamio (葉子, born 1966), manga artist popular for her manga Boys Over Flowers
• Yoko Kando (漢人, born 1974), Japanese butterfly swimmer
• Yoko Kanno (よう子, born 1964), composer-keyboardist
• Yoko Kikuchi (born 1981), American artist, singer, and songwriter
• Yoko Kikuchi (1967–1999) idol singer
• Yoko Koikawa (born 1974), Japanese backstroke swimmer
• Yoko Kumada (熊田 曜子, born 1982), Japanese gravure idol and singer
• Yōko Maki (actress) (よう子, born 1982), Japanese actress
• Yōko Maki (manga artist) (ようこ, born 1981), Japanese Manga artist
• Yoko Matsugane (洋子, born 1982), Japanese gravure idol
• Yoko Matsumoto (洋子), Japanese manga artist of Darkness Gathers
• Yoko Matsuyama (松山容子, born 1937), Japanese actress
• Yoko Minamida (南田 洋子, 1933-2009), a Japanese actress
• Yoko Minamino (陽子, born 1967), Japanese actress and singer
• Yoko Moriguchi (瑤子, born 1966), Japanese actress
• Yōko Nagayama (洋子, born 1968), Japanese enka singer and actress
• Yôko Natsuki (陽子, born 1952), Japanese actress
• Yōko Nogiwa (陽子, born 1936), Japanese actress
• Yoko Ono (洋子, born 1933), Japanese musician-artist and widow of John Lennon
• Yoko Sakaue (坂上, born 1968), Japanese judoka
• Yoko Shibui (陽子, born 1979), Japanese long-distance runner
• Yoko Shimada (楊子, born 1953), Japanese actress
• Yoko Shimomura (陽子, born 1967), Japanese composer and musician
• Yōko Sōmi (陽子, born 1965), Japanese voice actress
• Yoko Takahashi (洋子, born 1966), Japanese singer, performed "Cruel Angel's Thesis" opening for Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Yoko Tanabe (陽子, born 1966), Japanese judoka
• Yoko Tawada (葉子, born 1960), Japanese writer
• Yoko Toyonaga (born 1977), Japanese shot putter
• Yoko Wanibuchi (洋子, born 1972), Japanese politician
• Yoko Watanabe (葉子, 1953–2004), Japanese operatic soprano

Male

Pronounced differently, with two long o's, Yōkō can be a given name for a man:

• Yoko Gushiken (具志堅 用高, born 1955), professional boxer from 1974–1981

Fictional Characters

• Yoko Nakajima, a character in The Twelve Kingdoms
• Yoko Belnades, a supporting character in the Castlevania series.
• Yoko Herene, a character in 'My-Otome
• Yoko Kuno, a character All About Lily Chou-Chou
• Yoko Littner, one of the main characters of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
• Yoko Machi, a character in Bokurano: Ours
• Yoko Matsutani, a character in Legendz
• Yohko Mano, the title character of Devil Hunter Yohko
• Yoko Minato, a character in Kamen Rider Gaim
• Yoko Okino, a minor character in Case Closed
• Yoko Tsuno, the title character in a comic book series created by Belgian writer Roger Leloup.
• Yoko Suzuki, a character in the Resident Evil series
• Yoko Usami, a main character in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
• Yoko, a character in Inukami!
• Yoko, a character in the 2004 film The Grudge
• Yoko, the birth name of the main character in the manga Battle Angel Alita.
• The YuYu Hakusho character Kurama is referred to as "Yoko Kurama" when he is transformed into a fox demon; however, "Yoko" is not a proper name in his case.

See also

• Yoko (disambiguation)