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Canonical reference record
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Japanese given name

Ichiko

いちこ

Female-classified given-name records.

いちこイチコIchiko
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Reference coverage

Extended source depth

This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.

Distinct recorded spellings54

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows55

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Ichiko

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingいちこ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formイチコ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationIchiko

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Ichiko. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationい · ち · こ

3 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

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Meaning by written form

What can Ichiko mean?

A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Ichiko”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings11

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings1

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

いちこ

This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.

Characters and loaded glosses
いKana characterちKana characterこKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling

いち子

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses
いKana characterちKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM
Mixed kanji and kana spelling

イチ子

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses
イKana characterチKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM
Kanji spelling

一姫

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

一子

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Kanji spelling

一心

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Kanji spelling

一恋

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Kanji spelling

一湖

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling

一香

These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 55. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.

How to read these meanings

The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.

Reading profile

How Ichiko is represented

These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.

Recorded kana readings2

いちこ · イチこ

Kanji-based spellings54

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters3

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae3

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

Kana-only1

recorded spelling

1-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms14

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms38

recorded spellings

JMnedict classification evidence

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name + surname

いちこ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms70

76 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms6

6 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 74 · unspecified 2

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
いちこIchiko7076 source rowsfemale 74 · unspecified 2source rows · distinct forms: female 68 · unspecified 266 source rows
いちこIchiko00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —00 source rows

Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Ichiko

This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data54

3–28 strokes observed span

Median total strokes17

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms53

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
智子11 analyzed forms知子8 analyzed forms千子6 analyzed forms地子6 analyzed forms治子2 analyzed forms置子2 analyzed forms

Shown only when the same adjacent two-kanji sequence occurs in at least two analyzed source forms. Open a sequence in Kanji Pair Research for corpus co-occurrence context.

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

12 of 55 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.

Written forms checked55

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings12

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading42

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set10

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

一湖
2 source-recorded readings
Ichikoいちこ · this pageIkkoいっこ
伊直子
2 source-recorded readings
Ichikoいちこ · this pageInekoいねこ

A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Ichiko spellings

Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM46046003い, き, ぎ, く +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
智wisdom, intellect, reason110011012さと, さとし, さとる, さとい +9Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
一one, one radical (no.1)880001かず, い, いっ, いる +7Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
知know, wisdom800808さと, さとる, しり, しれ +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
伊Italy, that one880006これ, ただ, よし, いと +1Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
位rank, grade, throne770007ぞきJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
千thousand600603かず, ゆきJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
地ground, earth600606どまJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
以by means of, because, in view of440005もちJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
依reliant, depend on, consequently440008よ, よりJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
惟consider, reflect, think4400011ただ, よし, のぶJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
意idea, mind, heart4400013もと, よしJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3

Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.

Exact writing research map

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

These relationships are exact and source-backed. Whole-name readings shown in each card come from JMnedict within the current name class; exact-writing search can surface records from other name classes. Character links open KANJIDIC2-backed kanji pages. Sequence context means the same kanji string occurs contiguously in another recorded written form—it does not prove shared origin or meaning.

Exact written form

いちこ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ichikoいちこ · this page
Characters in order
いKanaちKanaこKana
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence

The exact sequence 一子 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 55. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Ichiko spellings

Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Ichiko

55 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading いちこ. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.

いちこ

いちこ · Ichiko

Katakana イチコMorae 3Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

Spelling comparator

Compare Ichiko forms side by side

Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
いちこいちこKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
いち子いちこ子 — child, sign of the rat3All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
イチ子イチこ子 — child, sign of the rat3All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一児いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 児 — newborn babe, child8All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一姫いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 姫 — princess11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一子いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 子 — child, sign of the rat4All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一心いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 心 — heart, mind5All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一恋いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 恋 — romance, in love11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一智子いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 智 — wisdom, intellect · 子 — child, sign of the rat16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一湖いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 湖 — lake13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
一香いちこ一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 香 — incense, smell10All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
以千子いちこ以 — by means of, because · 千 — thousand · 子 — child, sign of the rat11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
以地子いちこ以 — by means of, because · 地 — ground, earth · 子 — child, sign of the rat14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
以智子いちこ以 — by means of, because · 智 — wisdom, intellect · 子 — child, sign of the rat20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
以知子いちこ以 — by means of, because · 知 — know, wisdom · 子 — child, sign of the rat16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伊千子いちこ伊 — Italy, that one · 千 — thousand · 子 — child, sign of the rat12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified

The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.

What does Ichiko mean?

There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.

Related readings

More names beginning with いち

Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Ichiko

These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.

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Where to go next from Ichiko

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

Evidence on this page

What each source establishes

JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.

Source boundary

The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.

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