Entry № 10664 · Japanese origin

Tomoko Tomoko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOH-moh-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Wise child"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "wise child".

Tomoko Sawamura (1924-2017) was the Japanese actress; Tomoko Kawakami (1970-2011) was the prolific voice actress.

Wise child. The Japanese intellect.

The name in its native script.

智子
Transliteration
Tomoko
Pronunciation
/ ˈtoʊ.moʊ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tomoko stands.

Tomoko 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.

Tomokos before her.

Real people
Tomoko Sawamura
Japanese actress.
1924 – 2017
Tomoko Kawakami
Japanese voice actress.
1970 – 2011
In fiction
Tomoko
Common in anime.

Names connected to Tomoko.

The number behind Tomoko.

8

The Visionary

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