Kazuko

Where Kazuko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese かずこ (Kazuko).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kazuko
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Peak, #955
    63 babies named Kazuko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,502.
  4. 1951
    Kazuko Sawamatsu born
    Japanese tennis player
  5. 2000
    Kazuko Hironaka born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Kazuko Hironaka · Japanese association football player, born 2000
  • Kazuko Sawamatsu · Japanese tennis player, born 1951
  • Kazuko Takatsukasa · Japanese former princess; daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun, 1929–1989
  • Kazuko Sugiyama · Japanese actress and voice actress, born 1947
  • Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Japanese actress and essayist, 1935–2025

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.