Kimiko as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kimiko

What is the meaning of the name Kimiko ?

The baby name Kimiko is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced KEE-mee-koh.

Kimiko is Chinese, Japanese in Origin.

Kimiko is a Japanese feminine name built from kanji. The established spelling 君子 uses 君 kimi, lord, ruler, or second-person address, and 子 ko, child; as a Classical Chinese compound, 君子, junzi, is the earlier written form, denoting a noble person or gentleman in Confucian vocabulary. Other spellings parse the sounds differently, such as 貴美子, precious-beauty-child, or 紀美子, chronicle/era-beauty-child.

In Japan the name belongs to the large -ko group that dominated girls naming from the Taishō period through much of Shōwa, when 子 marked a conventional feminine ending. Kimiko now reads as a classic early-20th-century style rather than a current mainstream fashion. Attested writings include 公子, public-child, 喜美子, joy-beauty-child, and all-kana きみこ or キミコ. Public bearers include tennis player Kimiko Date and politician Kimiko Kurihara; in English-language media the name is also familiar from fictional characters such as Kimiko Miyashiro in The Boys.