Naoko
Naoko is a common feminine Japanese given name which is occasionally spelled Nahoko.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, child"
- 奈保子, "Nara, keep, child"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.People with the name
- Naoko Fukatsu, Japanese tennis table player
- Nahoko Kinoshita, Japanese actress
- Nahoko Kojima, Japanese paper cut artist
- Nahoko Uehashi, Japanese writer
- Naoko Hayashiba, Japanese writer and shogi player
- Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress
- Naoko Ishihara, Japanese sport shooter
- Naoko Imoto, Japanese freestyle swimmer
- Naoko Ken, Japanese singer and actress
- Naoko Kawai, Japanese singer and actress
- Naoko Kijimuta, Japanese tennis player
- Naoko Kouda, Japanese voice actress
- Naoko Kume, Japanese swimmer
- Naoko Matsui, Japanese voice actress
- Naoko Miura, Japanese swimmer
- Naoko Mori, Japanese actress
- Naoko Saito, Japanese field hockey player
- Naoko Sakamoto , Japanese long-distance runner
- Naoko Sakamoto , Japanese softball player
- Naoko Sato, Japanese tennis player
- Naoko Sawamatsu, Japanese professional tennis player
- Naoko Takahashi, Japanese long-distance runner
- Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese manga artist
- Naoko Yamano, member of the Japanese rock trio Shonen Knife
- Naoko Yamazaki, Japanese astronaut
- Naoko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
- Naoko Watanabe, Japanese actress who appeared in Silk
- Naoko Hashimoto, Japanese volleyball player
- Naoko Kamio, Japanese suit actor
- Naoko Funayama, Japanese American sportscaster
- Naoko Yamada,, Japanese animator and film director
Fictional characters
- Naoko, character in the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Naoko Akagi, minor character in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Naoko Kamikishiro, character in the light novel and manga Boogiepop and Others
- Naoko Yamada, the main heroine of the Japanese TV drama series Trick
- Naoko Yanagisawa, character in the anime and manga series Cardcaptor Sakura
- Naoko Satomi, a main character in the film The Wind Rises
- Naoko Kawamata, character in the film, The Grudge 3
- Naoko, character in The Revenge of Shinobi
- Naoko Yasutani, a main character of the novel A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
