Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower girl."

It is often seen as an archetypal name for females.^[1]

華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 'ko' is the second kanji, meaning 'girl (child)').

People

• Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan
• Hanako Footman (born 1994), British-Japanese actress
• Hanako Honda (1909–1968), Japanese politician
• Hanako Miura (born 1975), Japanese gymnast
• Hanako Jimi, Japanese politician
• Hanako Muraoka (1893–1968), Japanese novelist and translator
• Hanako Nakamori (born 1988), Japanese professional wrestler
• Hanako Oku (born 1978), Japanese singer/songwriter
• Hanako Oshima (born 1973), Japanese musician
• Hanako Takigawa (born 1988), Japanese actress
• Hanako Tokachi (1946–2016), Japanese actress
• Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"

Other

• Hanako (ハナコ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) in the Pokémon anime
• Hanako (fish), a fish which lived to be more than 200 years old
• Hanako Ikezawa, a heroine with debilitating social anxiety derived from her burn scars from the visual novel Katawa Shoujo
• Hanako Ichiro, a Shiba Inu owned by Inuyashiki Ichiro, from the manga Inuyashiki by Hiroya Oku
• Hanako-kun (ghost), formerly Amane Yugi, the title character from the anime and manga series Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
• Hanako Ohmuro, a character from YuruYuri
• Hanako-san, yokai in the girl toilet in Friday the 13th and Tuesday the 13th
• Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hanako
• All pages with titles containing Hanako

References