Yūko
Yūko or Yuko or Yuuko is a common feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yūko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 優子, "gentle, child"
- 裕子, "abundance, child"
- 祐子, "providential help, blessing, child"
- 夕子, "evening, child"
- 有子, "qualified, child"
- 悠子, "permanence, child"
- 侑子, "leading, child"
- 結子, "bind, child"
- 由子, "reason, child"
- 勇子, "courage, child"
- 友子, "friend, child"
- 木綿子, "cotton, child"
People
- Yūko Andō (news anchor), Japanese TV presenter and news anchor
- Yūko Andō (singer), Japanese singer-songwriter
- Yuko Aoki, Japanese bikini model
- Yuko Arimori, Japanese marathon runner
- Yūko Asano, Japanese singer and actress
- Yuko Fueki, Japanese actress who is most popular in South Korea, known as Yoo Min
- Yuko Goto, Japanese voice actress
- Yuko Hara, plays the keyboards for Southern All Stars
- Yuko Hara (voice actress), Japanese voice actress
- Yuko Inoue, Japanese classical violinist
- Yuko Ito, Japanese fashion model and actress
- Yuko Kawaguchi, Japanese pair skater
- Yuko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
- Yuko Maruyama, Japanese volleyball player
- Yūko Minaguchi, Japanese voice actress
- Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress, actress, J-pop singer and sound director
- Yuko Mizuno, Japanese television personality and actress
- Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress
- Yūko Mochizuki, Japanese actress
- Yuko Moriguchi, Japanese golfer
- Yūko Nakagawa, Japanese politician
- Yūko Nakamura, Japanese actress
- Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese butterfly swimmer
- Yuko Nakazawa, J-pop singer and actress
- Yuko Ogura, Japanese idol and model
- Yuko Oshima, AKB48 member
- Yuko Sano, Japanese volleyball player
- Yūko Sasaki, Japanese cricketer
- Yuko Sato (athlete), Japanese racewalker
- Yuko Sato (politician), Japanese politician
- Yūko Satō (voice actress), Japanese voice actress
- Yūko Sanpei a Japanese voice actress
- Yuko Shimizu, Japanese designer, creator of Hello Kitty
- Yuko Shimizu (actress), Japanese actress and gravure idol
- Yuko Shimizu (illustrator), Japanese illustrator
- Yuko Suzuki, Japanese volleyball player
- Yuko Takahashi, Japanese triathlete
- Yuko Takayama, Japanese actress
- Yuko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
- Yuko Tojo, Granddaughter of General Hideki Tōjō
- Yūko Tsuno, Japanese manga artist and doujin writer
- Yuko Yamaguchi, Japanese character designer and illustrator
- Yuko Yamashita, Japanese straight hair specialist
Fictional characters
- Yuko, a female elf from Mia and Me, a children's TV series
- Yuko, an antagonist character in Sexy Parodius
- Yuko, a female character from Sword Art Online
- Yūko, a female character and the yūrei in The Terror: Infamy
- Yuuko Aioi, a main character from the anime and manga series Nichijou
- Yuko Amamiya, the heroine of the game Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two
- Yuko Amasawa, one of the main characters in the series Dennō Coil
- Yuko Asou, the main character in the Valis series
- Yuko Ichihara - Witch of dimensions, a character from the manga and anime xxxHolic and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle by CLAMP
- Yūko Kanoe, a character from the manga and anime Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
- Yuko Minami, Ultraman Ace's alter ego alongside Seiji Hokuto in the 1972 namesake tokusatsu film
- Yuko Ogawa, a character from the manga and anime Kocchi Muite! Miiko
- Yuko Okonogi, one of the main characters in the series Dennō Coil
- Yuko Omori, a character from the anime HappinessCharge PreCure!
- Yuko Sakaki, a character in the novel Battle Royale, and the film and manga of the same name
- Yuuko Shirakawa, a librarian from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
- Yuko Takao, a character in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
- Yūko Yoshida, the protagonist of the manga and anime The Demon Girl Next Door
- Yuuko Yoshikawa, a character from the novel and anime Hibike! Euphonium
- Yuuko Nishi a character from the manga and anime A Channel (manga)