Hiroko
Hiroko is a common feminine Japanese given name.
Name meanings
Hiroko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 裕子, "Kind child"
- 弘子, "Beautiful child"
- 寛子, "Kind, tolerant child"
- 浩子, "Large child"
- 博子, "Wise child"
- 宏子, "Large child"
- 広子, "Broad child"
- 紘子, "Large child"
Hiragana: ひろこ
Katakana: ヒロコ
People with the name
- Hiroko Anzai, Japanese actress, model and gravure idol
- Hiroko Emori, Japanese voice actress
- Hiroko Emura, Japanese international lawn bowler
- Hiroko Fujii, Japanese table tennis player
- Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress consort of Emperor Go-Reizei
- Hiroko Hara, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Hiroko Hatano, Japanese model and actress
- Hiroko Hayashi, better known as Chikage Oogi, Japanese actress and politician
- Hiroko Hayashi (singer), Japanese singer, actress and television personality
- Hiroko Ishii, Japanese female track cyclist
- Hiroko Ishikawa, Japanese retired judoka
- Hiroko Ishizu, Japanese archer
- Hiroko Kamada, Japanese fencer
- Hiroko Kasahara, Japanese voice actress, J-pop singer and stage actress
- Katayama Hiroko, Japanese poet and translator
- Hiroko Kobayashi, Japanese slalom canoeist
- Hiroko Komatsu, Japanese artist and photographer
- Hiroko Konishi, Japanese voice actress, musician and AI artificial intelligence researcher
- Hiroko Kosahara, Japanese handball player
- Hiroko Kuniya, Japanese news presenter and journalist
- Hiroko Kurihara, American Oakland California-based designer and activist
- Hiroko Kurumizawa, Japanese singer
- Hiroko Kuwata, Japanese tennis player
- Hiroko Makino, Japanese swimmer
- Hiroko Maruyama, Japanese voice actress
- Hiroko Matsumoto, Japanese model
- Hiroko Matsuura, Japanese volleyball player
- Hiroko Mima, Japanese fashion model, athlete
- Hiroko Minagawa, Japanese writer
- Hiroko Minami, Japanese Nurse leader and educator
- Hiroko Mita, Japanese actress and former idol singer
- Hiroko Miyagi, Okinawan-born Mahjong player
- Milk Morizono, Japanese manga artist and photographer
- Hiroko Mochizuki, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Hiroko Mori, Micronesian clerk and politician
- Hiroko Moriguchi, Japanese singer and tarento
- Hiroko Nagahara, Japanese cosmochemist and astromineralogist
- Hiroko Nagamine, Japanese former badminton player
- Hiroko Nagasaki, Japanese swimmer
- Hiroko Nagata, Japanese leftist revolutionary and terrorist
- Hiroko Nakamura, Japanese pianist
- Hiroko Nakano, Japanese former politician
- Hiroko Nambu, Japanese cyclist
- Hiroko Okada, Japanese contemporary artist
- Miyuki Ichijo, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Okuda Hiroko, Japanese inventor and musicologist
- Hiroko Oshima, Japanese sprint canoeist
- Hiroko Ōta, Japanese politician, university president and a researcher of economics
- Hiroko Otsuka, Japanese retired rhythmic gymnast
- Hiroko Oyamada, Japanese writer
- Hiroko Sadakane, Japanese short-track speed-skater
- Hiroko Saito, Japanese swimmer
- Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player
- Hiroko Sakurai, Japanese actress, author and producer
- Hiroko Sasaki, Japanese pianist
- Hiroko Sato-Pijanowski, Japanese jewelry designer, artist, author and educator
- Memeco Sakata, Japanese gravure idol, actress and singer
- Hiroko Sato (athlete), Japanese javelin thrower
- Hiroko Sengoku, Japanese manga artist
- Hiroko Shibuya, Japanese luger
- Hiroko Shimabukuro, Japanese singer
- Hiroko Shimizu, Japanese ten-pin bowler
- Hiroko Sho, Japanese ultramarathon and marathon runner
- Hiroko Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestling valet and promoter
- Hiroko Suzuki, Japanese actress
- Hiroko Tabuchi, Japanese climate journalist
- Hiroko Taguchi, Japanese voice actress
- Hiroko Takahashi (artist), Japanese artist and kimono designer
- Hiroko Takahashi, Japanese cross-country skier
- Hiroko Takahashi, better known as Ao Takahashi, Japanese voice actress
- Hiroko Takenishi, Japanese fiction writer and literary critic
- Hiroko Tamoto, Japanese softball player
- Hiroko Tokita, Japanese anime screenwriter and director
- Hiroko Tsuji, Japanese retired gymnast
- Hiroko Tsukumo, Japanese retired volleyball player
- Tsumaki Hiroko, Japanese noble woman
- Hiroko Uchida-Yokoyama, Japanese athlete
- Hiroko Uehara, Japanese centre-left politician and policy consultant
- Hiroko Utsumi, Japanese anime director, animator, storyboard artist and manga artist
- Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
- Hiroko Yamanaka, Japanese retired female mixed martial arts fighter
- Hiroko Yamasaki, Japanese rhythmic gymnast
- Hiroko Yamashita, Japanese actress
- Hiroko Yamashita, Japanese retired long jumper
- Hiroko Yasutake, Japanese politician
- Hiroko Yoda, Japanese entrepreneur, translator, writer and folklorist
Fictional characters
- Hiroko Ai, a character in the science fiction novel series Mars trilogy
- Hiroko Haruna, a character in the anime series Hamtaro
- Hiroko Kanemoto, a character in the anime series Smile PreCure!
- Hiroko Katsuki, a character in the anime series Yuri on Ice
- Hiroko Takashiro, a character in the anime series Black Bible
- Hiroko Hagakure, a character in the video game series ''Danganronpa''