Natsuko
Pronunciation | Ná-ts(ú)-kó |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Japanese |
Meaning | It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
Other names | |
Related names | Atsuko Matsuko Natsuki Natsumi Natsume |
Natsuko (なつこ, ナツコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
[edit]Natsuko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 夏子, "summer, child"
- 懐子, "reminiscence, yearn, child"
- 捺子, "press, print, affix a seal, stamp, child"
- 奈津子 "Nara, harbor, child"
- 菜津子 "vegetables, harbor, child"
- 那津子 "what, harbor, child"
The name can also be written in hiragana なつこ, or katakana ナツコ.
People
[edit]- with the given name Natsuko
- Natsuko Aso (麻生 夏子), Japanese actress and J-pop actress
- Natsuko Doi (born 1979), Japanese snowboarder
- Natsuko Fujimori (藤森 奈津子), women's professional shogi player
- Natsuko Godai (伍代夏子, born 1961), Japanese enka singer
- Natsuko Hara (原 菜摘子), Japanese football midfielder who plays for NTV Beleza in the L. League
- Hashimoto Natsuko (橋本 夏子, 1856–1873), Japanese concubine
- Natsuko Higuchi (樋口 夏子), Japanese author during the Meiji period and Japan´s first prominent woman writer of modern times
- Natsuko Kuwatani (桑谷 夏子, born 1978), a Japanese voice actress
- Natsuko Matsuda (松田 奈津子, born 1947), Japanese swimmer
- Natsuko Sone (曽根 菜津子), Japanese competitive eater
- Natsuko Takahashi (高橋ナツコ), Japanese anime screenwriter
- Natsuko Toda (戸田 奈津子), Japanese subtitles translator
- Natsuko Yamamoto (山本 奈津子), Japanese actress
- Natsuko Yokosawa (横澤 夏子, born 1990), Japanese comedian
Fictional characters
[edit]- with the given name Natsuko
- Natsuko Aki (夏子), a character in the Japanese live action drama series Cutie Honey The Live
- Natsuko Koshino (夏子), a character in the anime series Futari wa Pretty Cure (known as Summer in the English dub)
- Natsuko Shōno (ナツ子), a character from the manga and anime series Kinnikuman and its sequel Kinnikuman Nisei
- Natsuko (夏子), a character in the anime movie The Boy and the Heron