Kiyoko Explained
| Kiyoko |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /ja/
English approximation: |
| Gender: | Female |
| Region: | Japan |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Related Names: | Kiyomi
Kiyone
Kyoko |
is a feminine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Kiyoko can be written many ways using different kanji characters. Some versions of the name are:
- Japanese: 清子, meaning "pure child"
- Japanese: 憙よ子, meaning "rejoice-child"
- Japanese: 喜与子, meaning "rejoice, gift child"
- Japanese: 喜洋子, meaning "rejoice, ocean child"
- Japanese: 潔子, meaning "undefiled child", "virtuous child".
People
- Hayley Kiyoko (Japanese: ヘイリー・キヨコ: born Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft), an American actress, singer-songwriter, musician, and dancer
- Kiyoko Arai (Japanese: あらい きよこ), a manga artist
- Kiyoko Fukuda (Japanese: 福田 貴代子; born 1944), former First Lady of Japan, wife of Yasuo Fukuda
- Kiyoko Fukuda (born 1970), Japanese former volleyball player
- Kiyoko Murata (Japanese: 村田 喜代子; born 1945), Japanese writer
- , Japanese sprinter
- , Japanese judge
- Kiyoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 清子; 1936–2021), a Japanese politician and former Olympic artistic gymnast
- Kiyoko Sayama (Japanese: 佐山 聖子), a Japanese anime director
- Kiyoko Shimahara (Japanese: 嶋原 清子; born 1976), a Japanese marathon runner
- Kiyoko Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本 貴代子), a person known for having committed suicide by jumping into the crater of Mount Mihara in 1933 which started a trend all over Japan
Fictional characters named Kiyoko
- Kiyoko (Japanese: キヨコ, aka Number 25), a character in the Japanese Manga, Akira
- Kiyoko Yamaguchi, kayfabe wife of WWE manager Wally Yamaguchi
- Kiyoko (aka Komori /bat/), a character in the Japanese horror film Suicide Club
- Kiyoko Madoka, a character from the manga series Gilgamesh and its anime adaption
- Kiyoko, a character in the Japanese anime film Tokyo Godfathers
- Kiyoko Shimizu, a character in the Japanese anime Haikyuu!!
