Entry № 5555 · Japanese origin

Kokoro Kokoro — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koh-KOH-roh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Heart / mind / spirit (Japanese philosophical concept)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "heart / mind / spirit (japanese philosophical concept)".

Kokoro is from the Japanese 心 (kokoro — heart, mind, spirit). Princess Kokoro — modern Japanese naming.

Heart / mind / spirit.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Kokoro
Pronunciation
/ koʊˈkoʊ.roʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kokoro stands.

Kokoro 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.

Kokoros before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kokoro (Sōseki)
Iconic 1914 Japanese novel.
1914

Names connected to Kokoro.

The number behind Kokoro.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kokoro reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.