Shizuko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Quiet child’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɪzukoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shizuko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 586K
- BRBrazil1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Quiet child’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shizuko counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Shizuko | 64 |
| CN China | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Shizuko | 4 |
| US United States | 568 | 1 in 586K | 568 | Shizuko | 86 |
| BR Brazil | 277 | 1 in 764K | 445 | Shizuko | 26 |
| EG Egypt | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 949K | — | Shizuko | 4 |
| CO Colombia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 471K | — | Shizuko | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | Shizuko | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | listed | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wakamatsu Shizukob. 1864JPJapanese writer and translator (1864-1896)
- Shizuko Kasagib. 1914JPJapanese singer, actress(1914-1985)
- Shizuko Ōhashib. 1920JPJapanese businessperson (1920-2013)
- Shizuko Sasakib. 1926JPJapanese politician and lawyer
- Shizuko Horiuchib. 1941JPJapanese translator
- Shizuko Sugiib. 1944JPJapanese lawyer
- Shizuko Tōdōb. 1949JPJapanese novelist
- Susana Higuchib. 1950PEnot in their usual namePeruvian politician (1950–2021)
- Shizuko Hoshib. 1953USJapanese American actress
- Sizzle Ohtakab. 1953JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer (1953-2022)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 568 | #18,842 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 445 | #8,040 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 437 | #15,574 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 277 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 264 | #20,180 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 226 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 126 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 100 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 73 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 42 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shizuko mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Quiet child’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Shizuko?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɪzukoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Shizuko a male or female name?
- Shizuko is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shizuko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Shizuko in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shizuko.
- How common is the name Shizuko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 568 people named Shizuko in 2020, about 1 in 586 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shizukoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shizuko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.