Natsuko

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Natsuko
PronunciationNá-ts(ú)-kó
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningIt can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related namesAtsuko
Matsuko
Natsuki
Natsumi
Natsume

Natsuko (なつこ, ナツコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Written forms

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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

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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

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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
  • Natsuko Hirose, main character of Zenshu (TV series).

See also

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  • All pages with titles beginning with Natsuko
  • All pages with titles containing Natsuko
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