Natsuko

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

Natsuko

Pronunciation	Ná-ts(ú)-kó
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

Possible writings

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

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

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

See also

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