group-level written forms
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.
records contributing to this reading group
based only on the imported source footprint
How to read Iyoko
The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.
Normalized to hiragana for comparison.
The same reading converted to katakana.
Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Iyoko. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
3 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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What can Iyoko 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 “Iyoko”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
イヨコ
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.
いよ子
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.
イヨ子
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.
い代子
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.
一世子
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.
五代子
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.
井世子
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.
井代子
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.
亥世子
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.
亥代子
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.
伊与子
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.
伊世子
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.
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 57. 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.
How Iyoko 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.
いよこ · イヨコ · イヨこ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
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.
いよこ in the imported JMnedict corpus
57 source spelling/reading rows
0 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| いよこIyoko | 5657 source rows | female 57source rows · distinct forms: female 56 | 00 source rows |
| いよこIyoko | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 00 source rows |
| いよこIyoko | 00 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.
Corpus structure behind Iyoko
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.
3–25 strokes observed span
among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data
all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes
contains at least one character outside that loaded classification
| Reading | Romanization | Morae | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| いよこ | Iyoko | 3 | 57 |
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.
Can the same writing be read another way?
9 of 57 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.
distinct spellings displayed on this page
exact written forms with 2+ source readings
within this active given-name corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
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.
How recurring characters function across Iyoko 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.
| Kanji | Character glosses | Forms | First | Final | Internal | Solo | Strokes | KANJIDIC2 nanori | Loaded class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 子 | child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM | 56 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 3 | い, き, ぎ, く +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 代 | substitute, change, convert | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 5 | す | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 世 | generation, world, society | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | とし, ゆ, ゆき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 伊 | Italy, that one | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | これ, ただ, よし, いと +1 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 予 | beforehand, previous, myself | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 夜 | night, evening | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 維 | fiber, tie, rope | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | これ, たもつ, つぐ, ゆい +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 依 | reliant, depend on, consequently | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | よ, より | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 倭 | Yamato, ancient Japan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | まさ, やす | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 惟 | consider, reflect, think | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ただ, よし, のぶ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 意 | idea, mind, heart | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | もと, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 衣 | garment, clothes, dressing | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.
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.
イヨコ
いよ子
イヨ子
い代子
一世子
五代子
井世子
井代子
亥世子
亥代子
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 57. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Kanji recurring across Iyoko 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.
Explore written forms of Iyoko
57 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading いよこ. 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.
イヨコ
イヨコ · Iyoko
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
いよ子
いよこ · Iyoko
イヨ子
イヨこ · Iyoko
い代子
いよこ · Iyoko
一世子
いよこ · Iyoko
五代子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
井世子
いよこ · Iyoko
井代子
いよこ · Iyoko
亥世子
いよこ · Iyoko
亥代子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊与子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
伊予子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊代子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊余子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊吉子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊容子
いよこ · Iyoko
伊蓉子
いよこ · Iyoko
依世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
依予子
いよこ · Iyoko
依代子
いよこ · Iyoko
依夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
倭世子
いよこ · Iyoko
倭予子
いよこ · Iyoko
倭代子
いよこ · Iyoko
倭夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
偉代子
いよこ · Iyoko
壱与子
いよこ · Iyoko
威世子
いよこ · Iyoko
弥子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
怡代子
いよこ · Iyoko
惟世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
惟予子
いよこ · Iyoko
惟代子
いよこ · Iyoko
惟夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
愈子
いよこ · Iyoko
意世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
意予子
いよこ · Iyoko
意代子
いよこ · Iyoko
意夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
慰代子
いよこ · Iyoko
為世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
猪世子
いよこ · Iyoko
猪代子
いよこ · Iyoko
維世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
維予子
いよこ · Iyoko
維代子
いよこ · Iyoko
維余子
いよこ · Iyoko
維夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
莞容子
いよこ · Iyoko
衣世子
いよこ · Iyoko
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
衣予子
いよこ · Iyoko
衣代子
いよこ · Iyoko
衣夜子
いよこ · Iyoko
郁世子
いよこ · Iyoko
郁代子
いよこ · Iyoko
Compare Iyoko 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.
| Spelling | One source reading | Character-level glosses | Total strokes | Loaded character class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| イヨコ | イヨコ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| いよ子 | いよこ | 子 — child, sign of the rat | 3 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| イヨ子 | イヨこ | 子 — child, sign of the rat | 3 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| い代子 | いよこ | 代 — substitute, change · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 8 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 一世子 | いよこ | 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 世 — generation, world · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 五代子 | いよこ | 五 — five · 代 — substitute, change · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 井世子 | いよこ | 井 — well, well crib · 世 — generation, world · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 井代子 | いよこ | 井 — well, well crib · 代 — substitute, change · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亥世子 | いよこ | 亥 — sign of the hog, 9-11PM · 世 — generation, world · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亥代子 | いよこ | 亥 — sign of the hog, 9-11PM · 代 — substitute, change · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊与子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 与 — bestow, participate in · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊世子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 世 — generation, world · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊予子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 予 — beforehand, previous · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊代子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 代 — substitute, change · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊余子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 余 — too much, myself · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 伊吉子 | いよこ | 伊 — Italy, that one · 吉 — good luck, joy · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 15 | All 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 Iyoko 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.
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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.
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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