Kiyoko

Kiyoko

Pronunciation	Japanese: [kijoꜜko] English approximation: kee-YOH-koh
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Region of origin	Japan
Other names
Related names	Kiyomi Kiyone Kyoko

Kiyoko (きよこ, キヨコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

Kiyoko can be written many ways using different kanji characters. Some versions of the name are:

• 清子, meaning "pure child"
• 憙よ子, meaning "rejoice-child"
• 喜与子, meaning "rejoice, gift child"
• 喜洋子, meaning "rejoice, ocean child"
• 潔子, meaning "undefiled child", "virtuous child".

People

• Hayley Kiyoko (ヘイリー・キヨコ: born Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft), an American actress, singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer
• Kiyoko Arai (あらい きよこ), a manga artist
• Kiyoko Fukuda (福田 貴代子; born 1944), former First Lady of Japan, wife of Yasuo Fukuda
• Kiyoko Fukuda (born 1970), Japanese former volleyball player
• Kiyoko Murata (村田 喜代子; born 1945), Japanese writer
• Kiyoko Ogawa (小川 清子, born 1946), Japanese sprinter
• Kiyoko Okabe (岡部 喜代子, born 1949), Japanese judge
• Kiyoko Ono (小野 清子; 1936–2021), a Japanese politician and former Olympic artistic gymnast
• Kiyoko Sayama (佐山 聖子), a Japanese anime director
• Kiyoko Shimahara (嶋原 清子; born 1976), a Japanese marathon runner
• Kiyoko Matsumoto (松本 貴代子), a person known for having committed suicide by jumping into the crater of Mount Mihara in 1933 which started a trend all over Japan

Fictional characters named Kiyoko

• Kiyoko (キヨコ, aka Number 25), a character in the Japanese Manga, Akira
• Kiyoko Yamaguchi, kayfabe wife of WWE manager Wally Yamaguchi
• Kiyoko (aka Komori /bat/), a character in the Japanese horror film Suicide Club
• Kiyoko Madoka, a character from the manga series Gilgamesh and its anime adaption
• Kiyoko, a character in the Japanese anime film Tokyo Godfathers
• Kiyoko Shimizu, a character in the Japanese anime Haikyuu!!