Hanako (given name)
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Pronunciationhan-nah-koh
GenderFemale
Word/nameJapanese
MeaningDifferent meanings depending on the kanji used
| Pronunciation | han-nah-koh |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Japanese |
| Meaning | Different meanings depending on the kanji used |
| Region of origin | Japan |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Hana Kanako |
Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower child", and another being 華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 子 is the second kanji, meaning 'child').
It is often seen as an archetypal name for females.[1] It was a popular name for female elephants in Japan imported in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the first part of the name, Hana, could be taken as reference to an elephant's nose.[2]
- Hanako Footman (born 1994), British-Japanese actress and writer
- Hanako Greensmith (born 1996), American actress
- Hanako Honda (本多 花子; 1909-1968), Japanese politician
- Hanako Jimi (自見 英子; born 1976), Japanese politician
- Hanako Miura (三浦 華子; born 1975), Japanese gymnast
- Hanako Muraoka (村岡 花子; 1893–1968), Japanese novelist and translator
- Hanako Nakamori (中森 華子; born 1988), Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Okada (岡田 華子; born 1980), Japanese lawyer and politician
- Hanako Oku (奥 華子; born 1978), Japanese singer and songwriter
- Hanako Oshima (大島 花子; born 1973), Japanese singer
- Hanako Takigawa (多岐川 華子; born 1988), Japanese actress, tarento and gravure idol
- Hanako Tokachi (十勝 花子; 1946–2016), Japanese actress and tarento
- Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
- Hanako Ueda (上田 華子; born 2000), Japanese professional wrestler
- Hanako Utsumi (内海 春菜子; born 2000), Japanese rugby sevens player
- Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
Fictional characters
- Hanako (ハナコ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) in the Pokémon anime
- Hanako, a character of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
- Hanako, a character of the drama Hanako to Anne
- Hanako Hanazawa, a classmate character from Sazae-san
- Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with debilitating social anxiety derived from her burn scars from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
- Hanako Ichiro, a Shiba Inu owned by Inuyashiki Ichiro, from the manga Inuyashiki by Hiroya Oku
- Hanako-kun (ghost), formerly Amane Yugi, the title character from the anime and manga series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Hanako Ohmuro, a character from YuruYuri
- Hanako-san, yokai in the girl toilet in Friday the 13th and Tuesday the 13th
- Hanako Sonoyama, a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS
- Hanako Urawa, a character from Blue Archive
- Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator
- Hanako Yumadagi, a main and protagonist of character of anime series Ongaku Shoujo
