All around the world, Motoko (Motoko 
, モトコ , もとこ) is a common primarily masculine, but very infrequently female first name. The first name Motoko is characteristic of Japan, where it is quite a rare predominantly male, but scarcely girly name, France, where it is a very rare dominantly female, but seldom masculine name, and the United States. Likewise, Motoko is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Motoko | South Africa, United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Japan |
| モトコ | Japan |
| Мотоко | Ukraine |
Motoko is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Motoko Kusanagi , the fictional character from Ghost in the Shell and Motoko Aoyama , the fictional character from Love Hina.
| taira no motoko consort of emperor koko (b. 850) |
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| horikawa motoko (b. 1049) |
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| motoko horikawa Lady in Waiting of Emperor Go-Uda and mother of Emperor Go-Nijo (b. 1269) |
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motoko fujishiro huthwaite last woman of the Monuments Men and Women to pass away, US (b. 1927) |
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| motoko reece Japanese-born American librarian, JP (b. 1926) |
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| motoko serizawa (b. 1930) |
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| motoko nabeshima (b. 1936) |
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| motoko sugihara (b. 1943) |
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| motoko kotani Japanese mathematician (b. 1960) |
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| motoko ohata researcher |
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| motoko ida researcher |
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| motoko kawashima researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-7650-7180 |
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| motoko kanzaki researcher |
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| motoko yamaguchi researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7094-6489 |
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| motoko ohnishi researcher |
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