Junko

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Junko is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.3K records spelled Junko3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Junkō, Junkô

• Polish given name477 records spelled Junko2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States

  Also written Juńko

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Junko is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Niña pura

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Esperanto, rush, reed

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Junko Tabeib. 1939JPJapanese mountain climber (1939-2016)
• Junko Koshinob. 1939JPJapanese designer (1939-)
• Junko Akimotob. 1947JPJapanese kayōkyoku singer
• Junko Miyashitab. 1949JPJapanese film actress
• Junko Ōhashib. 1950JPJapanese singer (1950-2023)
• Junko Sakuradab. 1958JPJapanese singer and actress
• Junko Miharab. 1964JPJapanese singer, actress, politician
• Junko Iwaob. 1970JPJapanese voice actress and singer
• Takeuchi Junkob. 1972JPJapanese actress and voice actress
• Junko Abeb. 1993JPJapanese actress (1993-)

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 102 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Junko?

We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Junko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Junko have the most bearers?

Junko is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled junko.

How common is Junko compared with other names?

In Japan, Junko is the 55th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.

Is Junko a male or female name?

Junko 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.

What does the name Junko mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Obedient child’; ‘pure child’.