Mitsuko
title: "Mitsuko" 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/Mitsuko" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Mitsuko |
| pronunciation | (Mee-tsoo-koh) |
| gender | Female |
| region | Japan |
| origin | Japanese |
| related names | Mitsouko |
| footnotes | |
| :: |
| name = Mitsuko | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation = (Mee-tsoo-koh) | gender = Female | meaning = | region = Japan | origin = Japanese | related names = Mitsouko | footnotes = Mitsuko is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
The name Mitsuko is generally written with the kanji characters 光 and 子 which, when translated into English can mean "light, child" or "shining, child". Mitsuko can have different meanings depending on which kanji characters are used to write the name. Some possible variations of the name Mitsuko are:
- 光子, "light, child"
- 充子, "provide, child"
- 満子, "satisfy/full, child"
- 睦子, "harmonious/intimate/friendly, child"
- 三子, "third child"
- 密子, "carefulness/secrecy, child"
- 蜜子, "honey/nectar/molasses, child"
People with the name
- Mitsuko Alexandra Yabe (born 1991), known as Lightchild, American and Japanese musician, composer, and music editor
- Mitsuko Aoyama, one of the first Japanese people to immigrate to Europe
- Mitsuko Baisho, Japanese actress
- Mitsuko Hamuro, Japanese concubine
- Mitsuko Horie, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
- Mitsuko Igarashi, Japanese ice hockey player
- Mitsuko Ishii, Japanese politician
- Mitsuko Kandori, Japanese gymnast
- Mitsuko Kusabue, Japanese actress
- Mitsuko Mito, Japanese actress
- Mitsuko Miura, Japanese actress
- Mitsuko Mori, Japanese actress
- Mitsuko Satake, Japanese sailor
- Mitsuko Shiga, Japanese tanka poet
- Mitsuko Shirai, Japanese mezzo-soprano and music professor
- Mitsuko Tabe, Japanese multimedia artist
- Mitsuko Tokoro, Japanese biologist and New Left activist
- Mitsuko Tomon, Japanese politician
- Mitsuko Torii, Japanese high jumper
- Mitsuko Tottori, Japanese airline executive
- Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-English classical pianist and conductor
- Mitsuko Yamada, known as Murasaki Yamada, Japanese manga artist, feminist essayist and poet
- Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Japanese actress
Fictional characters
- Mitsuko Komyoji, a central character in the Android Kikaider manga and anime series
- Mitsuko Souma, a central character in the Battle Royale novel, film, and manga
- Mitsuko the Boar, a character from the Bloody Roar video game series
- Mitsouko Yorisaka, a character in Claude Farrère's novel La Bataille, and the namesake of Guerlain's perfume "Mitsouko"
- Mitsuko Krieger, a character in Archer (2009 TV series), the holographic anime-style "wife" of Algernop Krieger.
- Mitsuko Hama, a character from the manga Sazae-san
References
References
- [http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Mitsuko.htm Mitsuko - Meaning and origin of the name Mitsuko]
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