Naoko

Naoko

Naoko Mori, an actress
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Nao Naomi

Naoko (なおこ, ナオコ) is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally spelled Nahoko (なほこ, ナホコ).

Possible writings

Naoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 直子, "obedient, child"
• 尚子, "esteem, child"
• 奈緒子, "Nara, cord, child"
• 菜緒子, "greens, cord, child"
• 奈央子, "Nara, center, child"
• 菜穂子, "greens, ear (of grain), child"
• 奈保子, "Nara, keep, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

• Nahoko Kinoshita, voice actress
• Nahoko Uehashi (菜穂子, born 1962), Japanese writer
• Naoko Hayashiba (直子, born 1968), Japanese writer and shogi player
• Naoko Iijima (直子, born 1968), Japanese actress
• Naoko Imoto (直歩子, born 1976), Japanese freestyle swimmer
• Naoko Ken (ナオコ, born 1953), Japanese singer and actress
• Naoko Kouda (直子, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
• Naoko Matsui (菜桜子, born 1961), Japanese voice actress
• Naoko Mori (尚子, born 1971), Japanese actress
• Naoko Sakamoto (直子, born 1980), Japanese long-distance runner
• Naoko Sawamatsu (奈生子, born 1973), Japanese professional tennis player
• Naoko Takahashi (尚子, born 1972), Japanese long-distance runner
• Naoko Takeuchi (直子, born 1967), Japanese manga artist
• Naoko Yamano (直子, born 1960), member of the Japanese rock trio Shonen Knife
• Naoko Yamazaki (直子, born 1970), Japanese astronaut
• Naoko Watanabe (渡辺菜生子, born 1959), Japanese voice actress
• Naoko Watanabe (渡辺奈緒子, born 1984), Japanese actress who appeared in Silk
• Naoko Hashimoto (born 1984), Japanese volleyball player
• Naoko Kamio (born 1967), Japanese suit actor
• Naoko Funayama, Japanese American sportscaster

Characters

• Naoko (直子), a character in the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Naoko Akagi (ナオコ), a minor character in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Naoko Kamikishiro (直子), a character in the light novel and manga Boogiepop and Others
• Naoko Yamada (奈緒子), the main heroine of the Japanese TV drama series Trick
• Naoko Yanagisawa (奈緒子), a character in the anime and manga series Cardcaptor Sakura

Other uses

• Naoko (film), a 2007 movie starring Ueno Juri
• Naoko, the English title of the 1999 novel Himitsu by Keigo Higashino

See also

• 14925 Naoko, a Main-belt Asteroid