Natsuko (なつこ, ナツコ) is a feminine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

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

• 夏子, "summer, child"
• 懐子, "reminiscence, yearn, child"
• 捺子, "press, print, affix a seal, stamp, child"
• 奈津子 "Nara, harbor, child"
• 菜津子 "vegetables, harbor, child"
• 那津子 "what, harbor, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana なつこ, or katakana ナツコ.

People

with the given name Natsuko

• Natsuko Aso (麻生 夏子), Japanese actress and J-pop actress
• Natsuko Doi (born 1979), Japanese snowboarder
• Natsuko Fujimori (藤森 奈津子), women's professional shogi player
• Natsuko Godai (伍代夏子, born 1961), Japanese enka singer
• Natsuko Hara (原 菜摘子), Japanese football midfielder who plays for NTV Beleza in the L. League
• Hashimoto Natsuko (橋本 夏子, 1856–1873), Japanese concubine
• Natsuko Higuchi (樋口 夏子), Japanese author during the Meiji period and Japan´s first prominent woman writer of modern times
• Natsuko Kuwatani (桑谷 夏子, born 1978), a Japanese voice actress
• Natsuko Matsuda (松田 奈津子, born 1947), Japanese swimmer
• Natsuko Sone (曽根 菜津子), Japanese competitive eater
• Natsuko Takahashi, Japanese anime screenwriter
• Natsuko Toda (戸田 奈津子), Japanese subtitles translator
• Natsuko Yamamoto (山本 奈津子), Japanese actress
• Natsuko Yokosawa (横澤 夏子, born 1990), Japanese comedian

Fictional characters

with the given name Natsuko

• Natsuko Aki (夏子), a character in the Japanese live action drama series Cutie Honey The Live
• Natsuko Koshino (夏子), a character in the anime series Futari wa Pretty Cure (known as Summer in the English dub)
• Natsuko Shōno (ナツ子), a character from the manga and anime series Kinnikuman and its sequel Kinnikuman Nisei

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Natsuko
• All pages with titles containing Natsuko