group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings19 Source spelling/reading rows19 Coverage levelExtended
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
Pronunciation & romanization
How to read Kitako
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: Kitako. 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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Meaning by written form
What can Kitako 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 “Kitako”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
きた子
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
Kanji spelling
企太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
喜多子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
喜太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
季多子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
季太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
希多子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
希太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
木多子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
木太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
樹多子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
樹太子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 19. 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 Kitako 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.
きたこ
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
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.
きたこ in the imported JMnedict corpus
19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| きたこKitako | 1919 source rows | female 19source rows · distinct forms: female 19 | 00 source rows |
| きたごKitago | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 22 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 Kitako
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| きたこ | Kitako | 3 | 19 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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?
None of the 19 displayed written forms has a second given-name reading 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.
Kanji role reference
How recurring characters function across Kitako 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 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | い, き, ぎ, く +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 太 | plump, thick, big around | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | おお, たか, ひろ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 多 | many, frequent, much | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 6 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 喜 | rejoice, take pleasure in | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | あき, きゅ, のぶ, ゆき +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 季 | seasons | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | すえ, とし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 希 | hope, beg, request | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | のぞ, のぞみ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 木 | tree, wood | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ぐ, も, もと | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 樹 | timber, trees, wood | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | いつき, うえ, こ, しげ +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 紀 | chronicle, account, narrative | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | おさむ, ただす, とし, とも +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 記 | scribe, account, narrative | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | のり | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 貴 | precious, value, prize | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | きよ, ぎ, たか, たかし +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 企 | undertake, scheme, design | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
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
きた子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
企太子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
喜多子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
喜太子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
季多子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
季太子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
希多子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
希太子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
木多子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
木太子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kitakoきたこ · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 19. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kitako 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.
子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM19 of 19 analyzed forms太plump, thick, big around9 of 19 analyzed forms多many, frequent, much8 of 19 analyzed forms喜rejoice, take pleasure in2 of 19 analyzed forms季seasons2 of 19 analyzed forms希hope, beg, request2 of 19 analyzed forms木tree, wood2 of 19 analyzed forms樹timber, trees, wood2 of 19 analyzed forms紀chronicle, account, narrative2 of 19 analyzed forms記scribe, account, narrative2 of 19 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Kitako
19 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading きたこ. 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.
きた子
きたこ · Kitako
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企太子
きたこ · Kitako
企undertake, scheme, design, attempt太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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喜多子
きたこ · Kitako
喜rejoice, take pleasure in多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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喜太子
きたこ · Kitako
喜rejoice, take pleasure in太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
季多子
きたこ · Kitako
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季太子
きたこ · Kitako
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希多子
きたこ · Kitako
希hope, beg, request, pray多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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希太子
きたこ · Kitako
希hope, beg, request, pray太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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木多子
きたこ · Kitako
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木太子
きたこ · Kitako
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樹多子
きたこ · Kitako
樹timber, trees, wood, establish多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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樹太子
きたこ · Kitako
樹timber, trees, wood, establish太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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生大子
きたこ · Kitako
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紀多子
きたこ · Kitako
紀chronicle, account, narrative, history多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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紀太子
きたこ · Kitako
紀chronicle, account, narrative, history太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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記多子
きたこ · Kitako
記scribe, account, narrative多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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記太子
きたこ · Kitako
記scribe, account, narrative太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
貴多子
きたこ · Kitako
貴precious, value, prize, esteem多many, frequent, much子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
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貴太子
きたこ · Kitako
貴precious, value, prize, esteem太plump, thick, big around子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Kitako 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| きた子 | きたこ | 子 — child, sign of the rat | 3 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 企太子 | きたこ | 企 — undertake, scheme · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 喜多子 | きたこ | 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 喜太子 | きたこ | 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 季多子 | きたこ | 季 — seasons · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 季太子 | きたこ | 季 — seasons · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 希多子 | きたこ | 希 — hope, beg · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 希太子 | きたこ | 希 — hope, beg · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 木多子 | きたこ | 木 — tree, wood · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 木太子 | きたこ | 木 — tree, wood · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 樹多子 | きたこ | 樹 — timber, trees · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 樹太子 | きたこ | 樹 — timber, trees · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 生大子 | きたこ | 生 — life, genuine · 大 — large, big · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 紀多子 | きたこ | 紀 — chronicle, account · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 紀太子 | きたこ | 紀 — chronicle, account · 太 — plump, thick · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 記多子 | きたこ | 記 — scribe, account · 多 — many, frequent · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 19 | 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 Kitako 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
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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.
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Kitako
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.
Given-name relationship
Yukiko
喜多子季希木樹紀記
9 shared kanji · 249 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKitarō
喜多太季希木樹紀記
9 shared kanji · 41 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 263 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSakiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 166 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMakiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 166 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKimiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 160 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTokiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 132 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKiyoko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 123 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMikiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 123 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipWakiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 81 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKieko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 78 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKukiko
喜子季希木樹紀記
8 shared kanji · 73 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →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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