Sanako
Sanako is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Child.
What Sanako means
Child.
Sanako 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 Sanako 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.
Sanako is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Sanako?
Sanako sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
Names like Sanako
These share Sanako's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Sachiko — Child of happiness.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Sora — Sky.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Aoi — Hollyhock; the color blue.
- Emi — Beautiful blessing; smile.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.