Taeko

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

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

People

• Taeko Fukao, Japanese jazz singer
• Taeko Hattori (b. 1949), a Japanese stage, film, and television actress
• Taeko Ishikawa (b. 1975), Japanese softball player
• Taeko Kawasumi (b. 1972), Japanese football player
• Taeko Kawata (b. 1965), a Japanese voice actress
• Taeko Kono (b. 1926), a 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), a Japanese voice actress
• Taeko Namba, a Japanese table tennis player
• Taeko Onuki (b. 1953), a 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), a Japanese writer
• Tomiyama Taeko (1921–2021), Japanese visual artist
• Taeko Udagawa (b. 1960), Japanese anthropologist
• Taeko Watanabe (b. 1960), a Japanese manga artist

Fictional

• Makioka Taeko in The Makioka Sisters (novel) 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 Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
• Taeko Minazuki, a character in the series Ai Yori Aoshi
• Taeko Ishiki, captain of Nadeshiko Japan in Area no Kishi
• Taeko Yasuhiro, aka Celestia Ludenberg, a student in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
• Taeko Takeda, one of the major characters in the 2014 series of novels 'The Desolate Tree' by Raphael Sangorski
• Hirata Taeko, character in Laura Joh Rowland's Sano Ichiro series. Daughter of Sano's chief retainer Hirata and his wife Niu Midori, conceived out of wedlock, makes first appearance in "The Dragon King's Palace".
• Taeko Yamada, a female version of Taro Yamada in Yandere Simulator