Entry № 6945 · Other origin

Mitsuko Mitsuko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meet-SOO-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Light child (Japanese + Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi mother of EU founder)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "light child (japanese + mitsuko coudenhove-kalergi mother of eu founder)".

Mitsuko is from the Japanese 光子 / 満子 (Mitsuko — mitsu light/brilliance + ko child — light child, brilliant child). Mitsuko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese heritage. Japanese feminine name reflecting Japanese-European heritage.

Light child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

光子
Transliteration
Mitsuko
Pronunciation
/ mɪtˈsuː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mitsuko stands.

Mitsuko 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.

Mitsukos before her.

Real people
Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi
Japanese-Austrian aristocrat + mother of EU founder Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.
1874 – 1941
In fiction
Mitsuko Uchida
Japanese-British classical pianist + Dame Commander OBE 2009.
born 1948

Names connected to Mitsuko.

The number behind Mitsuko.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mitsuko reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.