Tomoko
| Tomoko | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (TOH-moh-koh) |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Japanese |
| Meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| Region of origin | Japan |
| [1] | |
Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 友子 - "friendly child"
- 知子 - "knowing child"
- 智子 - "wise child"
- 朋子 - "friendly child"
- 皆子 - "beautiful girl"
- 时间 - "mature child"
People with the name
- Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子, born 1951), origami writer
- Tomoko Hagiwara (智子 萩原, born 1980), swimmer
- Tomoko Hoshino (星野 知子, born 1957), actress and essayist
- Tomoko Ishimura (石村 知子, born 1972), voice actor
- Tomoko Kawakami (川上 とも子, born 1970), voice actor
- Tomoko Kaneda (金田 朋子, born 1973), voice actor
- Tomoko Kawase (川瀬 智子, born 1975), singer
- Tomoko Kondō (近藤 智子, born 1968), singer, part of 1980s J-Pop duo BaBe
- Tomoko Miyaguchi (宮口 知子. born 1975), professional wrestler
- Tomoko Ninomiya (二ノ宮 知子, born 1969), manga artist
- Tomoko Ohta geneticist, pioneer of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Tomoko Oka (岡 智子, born 1964), Japanese fencer
- Tomoko Okazaki Director of Operations at White Rabbit Press
- Tomoko Tabata (田畑 智子, born 1980), actress
- Tomoko Tanaka (田中 智子, born 1958), Japanese ice dancer
- Tomoko Uemura (1956–1977), victim of Minamata disease and subject of the photo Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath
- Tomoko Yamaguchi (山口 智子, born 1964), actress and singer
- Tomoko Yoshihara (born 1970), volleyball player
- Tomoko Naka (born 1983), voice actress
Fictional characters
- Tomoko Anabuki a character from the Strike Witches light novel
- Tomoko Saeki, a character from the anime and manga series DNA²
- Tomoko Kuroki, the main character from the manga series WataMote
- Tomoko Nakaoka, the baby sister of Barefoot Gen.
- Tomoko Nozama, a character from the tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Fourze
- In Liu Cixin's science fiction novel Death's End the ambassador of an alien civilisation is called 智子 and appears in the shape of a Japanese woman. This is a double entendre between sophon (a fictitious elementary particle) and the Japanese name.
- Tomoko Hayashi, a character from the tokusatsu show Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
- Tomoko Shiretoko, a character from the Boku no Hero Academia
References
See also
- "Tomoko", a song by Icelandic singer Hafdís Huld
- Tomoyo
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