Atsuko
Atsuko is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Lake.
What Atsuko means
Lake.
Atsuko sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Atsuko comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Atsuko is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Atsuko?
Atsuko does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Atsuko
We group Atsuko under water and the sea. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Water
Names like Atsuko
These share Atsuko's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Kazumi — Water.
- Kyoko — Lake.
- Mariko — Lake.
- Ryo — Refreshing; clear; distant.
- Brooke — A small stream.
- Clodagh — Named for an Irish river.
- Eira — Snow.
- Maren — Of the sea.
- Marlowe — From the hill by the lake.
- Maxwell — From the great stream.
- Moana — Ocean; the deep sea.
- Nerissa — From the sea.