Toshiko

Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name.

Possible writings

 * 敏子 "agile/clever, child"
 * 俊子 "genius, child"
 * 淑子 "graceful/polite, child"
 * 寿子 "longevity, child"
 * 年子 "year/age, child"
 * 歳子 "age/time, child"
 * 稔子 "humble, child"

The name can also be written in hiragana (としこ) or katakana (トシコ).

People with the name

 * Toshiko Abe (阿部 俊子), Japanese politician
 * Toshiko Akiyoshi (龝吉 敏子), Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader)
 * Toshiko D'Elia (1930–2014), American Masters athletics long distance runner
 * Toshiko Ezaki (江崎 とし子), Japanese singer and songwriter
 * Toshiko Fujita (藤田 淑子), Japanese voice actress
 * Toshiko Hamayotsu (浜四津 敏子), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
 * Toshiko Haruoka (春岡 淑子), Japanese swimmer
 * Toshiko Hayashi (林 紀子), Japanese communist politician
 * Toshiko Higashikuni (1896–1978), aka Princess Yasu aka Princess Toshiko, 9th daughter of the Japanese Emperor Meiji
 * Toshiko Hirata (平田 俊子), writer (poet)
 * Toshiko Ishihara (石原 利子), name birth of Nana Ozaki (尾崎 奈々)Japanese actress
 * Toshiko Kishida (岸田 俊子), aka Toshiko Nakajima, Japanese feminist, writer (under the pen-name Shōen)
 * Toshiko Kohno, principal flutist in the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra
 * Toshiko Koshijima (こしじま としこ), singer and member of Capsule
 * Toshiko Kowada (小和田 敏子), athlete (table tennis world champion, 1969)
 * Toshiko Miyamoto (宮本 敏子), Japanese gymnast
 * Toshiko Mori, Japanese-born American architect
 * Toshiko Sawada (沢田 敏子), Japanese voice actress
 * Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara (白須-相原 俊子), Japanese gymnast and 1964 Olympic medalist
 * Toshiko Taira (平良 敏子), Japanese textile artist
 * Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011), Japanese American ceramic artist
 * Toshiko Tamura (田村 俊子), Japanese novelist
 * Toshiko Uchima (内間俊子) (October 26, 1918 - December 18, 2000), Japanese-American artist
 * Toshiko Ueda (1917–2008), Japanese manga artist
 * Toshiko Yonekawa (米川 敏子), musician (koto), Living National Treasure
 * Toshiko Yuasa (湯浅 年子), Japanese nuclear physicist

Fictional characters

 * Toshiko Kasen, a character in the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories video game
 * Toshiko Sato, a protagonist in the television series Torchwood and briefly appeared in Doctor Who