Kiyoko

KiyokoPronunciation| Japanese: [kijoꜜko]
English approximation: kee-YOH-koh

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Gender| Female
Origin
Word/name| Japanese
Region of origin| Japan
Other names
Related names| Kiyomi
Kiyone
Kyoko

Kiyoko (きよこ, キヨコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

## Written forms

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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

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* Hayley Kiyoko (ヘイリー・キヨコ: born Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft), an American actress, singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer
* Kiyoko Arai (あらい きよこ), a manga artist
* Kiyoko Fukuda (福田 貴代子; born 1944), former First Lady of Japan, wife of Yasuo Fukuda
* Kiyoko Fukuda (born 1970), Japanese former volleyball player
* Kiyoko Murata (村田 喜代子; born 1945), Japanese writer
* Kiyoko Ogawa (小川 清子, born 1946), Japanese sprinter
* Kiyoko Okabe (岡部 喜代子, born 1949), Japanese judge
* Kiyoko Ono (小野 清子; 1936–2021), a Japanese politician and former Olympic artistic gymnast
* Kiyoko Sayama (佐山 聖子), a Japanese anime director
* Kiyoko Shimahara (嶋原 清子; born 1976), a Japanese marathon runner
* 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

## Fictional characters named Kiyoko

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* 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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