Meiko

Written forms

Meiko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

芽子, "sprout, child"

芽心, "sprout, heart"

迷子, "lost child"

姪子, "niece"

盟子, "alliance, child"

明子, "bright, child"

明衣子, "bright, garment, child"

芽衣子, "sprout, garment, child"

め以子, "compared with, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People

Meiko Izawa (明子; born 1969), Japanese actress

Meiko Kaji (芽衣子; born 1947), Japanese actress and singer

Meiko Kanda (明子; born 1984), Japanese actress

Meiko Karahashi (姪子; 1796–1881), great-grandmother of Emperor Shōwa

Meiko Komichi (迷子), Japanese manga artist

Meiko Nakahara (めいこ; born 1959), Japanese singer

Meiko Satomura (明衣子; born 1979), Japanese professional wrestler

Meiko Tanaka (盟子; born 1988), Japanese professional wrestler

Meiko Yasuda (芽衣子; born 1982), Japanese former tarento

Fictional characters

Meiko (メイコ), a humanoid persona for Yamaha Corporation's vocaloid singing synthesizer application

Meiko Akizuki (茗子), a character in the manga and anime series Marmalade Boy

Meiko Ashikawa (芽衣子), a character in the manga series Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai

Meiko "Menma" Honma (芽衣子), a character in the 2011 Japanese anime series Anohana

Meiko Inoue (芽衣子), a character in the manga series Solanin

Meiko Mochizuki (芽心), a character in the Digimon Adventure tri.

Meiko Nishikado (め以子), a character in the 2013 Asadora Gochisōsan

Meiko Okamoto (メイコ), a character in the adventure game Detective Pikachu

Meiko Otsuka (芽子), a character in the manga series Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Meiko Shiraki (芽衣子), a character in the manga series Prison School