Hanako (given name)

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.

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 (Hanako Kobayashi, 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
 * Hanako Yumadagi, a character of anime series Ongaku Shoujo