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Reiko Reiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAY-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Beautiful / lovely child"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "beautiful / lovely child".

Reiko is from the Japanese 玲子 / 礼子 / 麗子 (Reiko — rei lovely/grace/ceremonial + ko child — lovely child, graceful child). Reiko is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese heritage.

Beautiful / lovely child (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

玲子
Transliteration
Reiko
Pronunciation
/ ˈreɪ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Reiko stands.

Reiko 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.

Reikos before her.

Real people

In fiction
Reiko
Japanese lovely child + Confucian rei propriety.

Names connected to Reiko.

The number behind Reiko.

4

The Builder

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