Taeko

Taeko is a Japanese female given name. It can have various meanings depending on the kanji used. Possible written forms include:

妙子 "mysterious child" 多恵子 "many blessings, child"

People

• Taeko Fukao, Japanese jazz singer
• Taeko Hattori (b. 1949), Japanese stage, film, and television actress
• Taeko Ishikawa (b. 1975), Japanese softball player
• Taeko Kawata (b. 1965), Japanese voice actress
• Taeko Kono (1926–2015), Japanese novelist and essayist
• Taeko Kubo (b. 1949), Japanese diver
• Taeko Kunishima, Japanese jazz pianist
• Taeko Kuwata (b. 1945), half of the classical piano duo Duo Crommelynck
• Taeko Nakanishi (b. 1931), Japanese voice actress
• Taeko Namba, Japanese table tennis player
• Taeko Nishino (b. 1975), Japanese singer and actress
• Taeko Onuki (b. 1953), Japanese singer
• Taeko Oyama (b. 1974), Japanese basketball player
• Taeko Takeba (b. 1966), Japanese trap shooter
• Taeko Todo (b. 1968), Chinese-born table tennis
• Taeko Tomioka (b. 1935), Japanese writer
• Tomiyama Taeko (1921–2021), Japanese visual artist and writer
• Taeko Udagawa (b. 1960), Japanese anthropologist
• Taeko Watanabe (b. 1960), Japanese manga artist

Fictional

• Makioka Taeko in The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• Taeko, the main character in the 1991 Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday
• Taeko Hiramatsu, a character in the light novel series Is This a Zombie?
• Taeko Minazuki, a character in the series Ai Yori Aoshi
• Taeko Ishiki, captain of Nadeshiko Japan in Area no Kishi
• Taeko Yasuhiro, a.k.a. Celestia Ludenberg, a student in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
• Taeko Nomura, one of the main characters in the manga and anime Coppelion
• Taeko Yamada, a female version of Taro Yamada in Yandere Simulator