Tomoko Explained
| Tomoko |
| Pronunciation: | (TOH-moh-koh) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| Region: | Japan |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 友子 - "friendly child"
- 知子 - "knowing child"
- 智子 - "wise child"
- 朋子 - "friendly child"
- 皆子 - "beautiful girl"
- 詩子 - "poetic child"
People with the name
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese judge
- , Japanese voice actress
- , born January 14, 1958, Japanese city pop artist
- , Japanese judoka
- , Japanese origami writer
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese announcer
- , Japanese actress and essayist
- , Japanese motorcycle racer
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese sprinter
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese politician
- , victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko and Mother in the Bath
- , Japanese singer
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese artist
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese singer
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
- , Japanese painter
- , Japanese voice actress
- Tomoko Masuzawa, American philosopher
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese film director and actress
- Tomoko Miho (1931 – 2012), American graphic designer
- , Japanese professional wrestler
- , Japanese photographer
- Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno (born 1945), American businesswoman
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese businesswoman
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese rock climber
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
- , Japanese fencer
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese swimmer
- , Japanese fencer
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese lawyer, politician and writer
- , Japanese photographer
- Tomoko Sugawara, Japanese harpist
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese actress
- Tomoko Takahashi (born 1966), Japanese artist
- , Japanese politician
- Tomoko Tamura, Japanese table tennis player
- , Japanese ice dancer
- , Japanese singer, songwriter and arranger
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese actress and singer
- , Japanese tennis player
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese president of RENGO
Fictional characters
- Tomoko Anabuki (穴拭 智子), a character from the Strike Witches light novel
- Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Tomoko Higashikata, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
- , a character from the 2012 anime series Smile PreCure!
- Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen
- , a character from the manga and anime series Great Teacher Onizuka
- Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
- Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
- Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
- In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name.
References
- http://www.babynames.co.uk/meaning_origin_name_Tomoko.htm Tomoko-Meaning and origin of the name Tomoko
See also
