Entry № 2969 · Japanese origin

Emiko Emiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-mee-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Beautiful child / smiling child (Japanese heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "beautiful child / smiling child (japanese heritage)".

Emiko Suzuki — Japanese politician. Emiko Hashimoto — Japanese figure. Princess Emiko — Japanese heritage naming.

Beautiful smiling child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

恵美子
Transliteration
Emiko
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛ.miː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Emiko stands.

Emiko does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Emikos before her.

Real people
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Japanese-American anthropologist + Order of the Sacred Treasure.
born 1934
Emiko Jean
American Tokyo Ever After author.
modern
In fiction
Emiko
Japanese beautiful child.

Names connected to Emiko.

The number behind Emiko.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Emiko reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.