Kiyoko
title: "Kiyoko" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["japanese-feminine-given-names", "feminine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoko" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Kiyoko |
| pronunciation | |
| English approximation: | |
| gender | Female |
| region | Japan |
| origin | Japanese |
| related names | Kiyomi |
| Kiyone | |
| Kyoko | |
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| name = Kiyoko | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation = English approximation: | gender = Female | meaning = | region = Japan | origin = Japanese | related names = Kiyomi Kiyone Kyoko | footnotes =
Kiyoko is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
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, Japanese manga artist
- Fujiwara no Kiyoko, Empress consort of Japan as the consort of Emperor Sutoku
- Kiyoko Fukuda, Japanese former First Lady of Japan, wife of Yasuo Fukuda
- Kiyoko Fukuda, Japanese former volleyball player
- Kiyoko Ichiki, Japanese professional wrestler
- Kiyoko Ishiguro (1901-2015), Japanese supercentenarian
- Kiyoko Matsumoto (松本 貴代子), who committed suicide by jumping into the crater of Mount Mihara in 1933, starting a trend in Japan
- Kiyoko Miki, Japanese politician
- Kiyoko Murata, Japanese writer
- Kiyoko Nomura, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Kiyoko Ogawa, Japanese sprinter
- Kiyoko Okabe, Japanese judge
- Kiyoko Ono, Japanese politician and gymnast
- Kiyoko Sayama, Japanese animator and director
- Kiyoko Shibuya, Japanese visual effects director and film producer
- Kiyoko Shimahara, Japanese marathon runner
- Kiyoko Sugimura, Japanese athlete
- Kiyoko Suizenji, Japanese enka singer and actress
- Kiyoko Takeda, Japanese scholar
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!!
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