Noriko


Noriko is a Japanese given name for females.

Written forms

Forms in kanji can include:
  • 徳子, "benevolence child"
  • 法子, "method, law child"
  • 則子, "rule child"
  • 紀子, "chronicle child"
  • 教子, "teach child"
  • 範子, "pattern child"
  • 典子, "rule, precedent, ceremony child"
  • 規子, "standard, measure child"
  • 憲子, "constitution child"
  • 稔子, "child who harvests wisdom and knowledge"
  • 雅子, "beauty child"
  • 希子, "hope child"
  • 倫子, "ethics child"
  • 矩子, "ruler child"
  • 能理子, "child who is skilled in reason, logic"
  • 乃理子, "child of reason"

    People with the name

  • Princess Noriko, Empress of Japan during the early Kamakura period
  • Noriko Akatsuka, Japanese-born American scholar
  • Noriko Anno, Japanese judoka
  • Noriko Aota, Japanese tarento, actress and former idol singer
  • Noriko Aoyama, Japanese former model and actress
  • Noriko Arai, Japanese paralympic athlete
  • Noriko Asano, Japanese swimmer
  • Noriko Awaya, Japanese female soprano chanteuse and singer
  • Noriko Baba, Japanese former football player
  • Noriko Eguchi, Japanese film and television actress
  • Noriko Fukuda, Japanese announcer
  • Noriko Fukushima, Japanese freestyle skier
  • Noriko Furuya, Japanese politician
  • Noriko H. Arai, Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence
  • Noriko Harada, Japanese softball player
  • Noriko Hayami, Japanese actress
  • Noriko Hidaka, Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and narrator
  • Noriko Higashide, Japanese actress
  • Noriko Higuchi, Japanese long-distance runner
  • Noriko Honma, Japanese actress
  • Noriko Horiuchi, Japanese politician
  • Noriko Ibaragi, Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, children's literature writer, and translator
  • Noriko Ikeuchi, Japanese kickboxer
  • Noriko Inada, Japanese swimmer
  • Noriko Iriyama, Japanese actress and model
  • Noriko Ishibashi, Japanese former football player
  • Noriko Ishigaki, Japanese politician
  • Noriko Ito, Japanese para-badminton player
  • Noriko Kajiwara, Japanese Paralympic swimmer
  • Noriko Kamachi, known as Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and idol
  • Noriko Kamakura, Japanese practitioner, researcher, and academic leader in occupational therapy
  • Noriko Kariya, Canadian professional female boxer
  • Noriko Katō, Japanese singer and actress
  • Noriko Kawakami, Japanese electrical engineer
  • Noriko Kawamura, Japanese teacher
  • Noriko Kijima, Japanese gravure idol and actress
  • Dream Dolphin, Japanese new age artist better known as Dream Dolphin
  • Noriko Koiso, Japanese former basketball player
  • Noriko Kosai, Japanese sport shooter
  • Noriko Kubo, Japanese fencer
  • Noriko Matsuda, Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion
  • Noriko Matsueda, Japanese former video game composer
  • Noriko Matsumoto, Japanese singer and television personality
  • Noriko Matsumoto, Japanese actress and stage director
  • Noriko Mitose, Japanese singer
  • Noriko Miyagawa, Japanese politician
  • Noriko Mizoguchi, Japanese retired judoka
  • Noriko Mizuta, Japanese scholar and poet
  • Noriko Mochizuki, Japanese gymnast
  • Noriko Munekata, Japanese judoka
  • Noriko Nakagoshi, Japanese actress
  • Noriko Nakayama, Japanese former badminton player
  • Noriko Namiki, Japanese voice actress; see Idaten Jump
  • Noriko Narazaki, Japanese retired judoka
  • Noriko Narushima, Japanese politician and women's right activist
  • Noriko Nishimoto, Japanese–Australian puppeteer
  • Noriko Oda, Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
  • Noriko Ogawa, Japanese classical pianist
  • Noriko Ogawa, Japanese actress and J-pop singer
  • Noriko Ogiwara, Japanese fantasy writer
  • Noriko Ohara, Japanese actress and narrator
  • Noriko Ohara, Japanese artistic director and retired ballet dancer
  • Noriko Osumi, Japanese neuroscientist
  • Noriko Rikimaru, Japanese voice actress and narrator
  • Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress
  • Noriko Sasaki, Japanese manga artist
  • Noriko Sato, Japanese figure skating coach and former competitor
  • Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, Japanese American writer and civil rights activist
  • Noriko Senge, Japanese former princess of the Japanese Imperial Family
  • Noriko Sengoku, Japanese film and television actress
  • Noriko Shibasaki, Japanese voice actress
  • Noriko Shibuta, Japanese rower
  • Noriko Shiina, Japanese actress, tarento, and singer
  • Noriko Shinohara, Japanese-American multi-disciplinary fine artist
  • Noriko Shitaya, Japanese voice actress
  • Noriko Suzuki, Japanese voice actress; see Doctor Neo Cortex
  • Noriko T. Reider, Japanese author
  • Noriko Tadano, Japanese tsugaru shamisen performer, composer and vocalist
  • Noriko Taniguchi, Japanese rugby sevens player
  • Noriko Tatsumi, Japanese pink film actress
  • Noriko Toda, Japanese former female speed skater
  • Noriko Tsuiki, Japanese textile artist and weaver
  • Noriko Tsukase, Japanese voice actress and chanson singer
  • Noriko Ueda, Japanese jazz bassist, composer and arranger
  • Noriko Uemura, Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator
  • Noriko Watanabe, Japanese actress and singer
  • Noriko Yamaji, Japanese softball player
  • Noriko Yamamoto, Japanese swimmer
  • Noriko Yamanaka, Japanese female table tennis player
  • Noriko Yamashita, Japanese former volleyball player
  • Tujiko Noriko, Japanese musician, actor and director

    Fictional characters

  • Noriko Ashida who also goes by the codename Surge from New X-Men
  • Noriko Hirayama, a character of the Yasujirō Ozu film, Tokyo Story
  • Noriko Kawada, a character of Digimon
  • Noriko Kinoshita, a character of Juvenile
  • Noriko Nakagawa, a main character of the book and film Battle Royale
  • Noriko Nijo, a character of Maria-sama ga Miteru
  • Noriko from Usagi Yojimbo, the villain of the "Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" arc
  • Noriko Shimabara, titular character of the film Noriko's Dinner Table
  • Noriko Takaya, a character of Gunbuster
  • Noriko Ukai, a character of the manga Gravitation
  • Noriko Ono, one of the main character's daughters in An Artist of the Floating World
  • Noriko Noshimuri, a character of the television series Hawaii Five-0
  • Noriko Momoi, a friend character of Mami Sakura from Esper Mami
  • Noriko Hibino, a character of the video game ''Generation Xth''