Motoko

Motoko is a feminine Japanese given name.

Written forms

• もとこ (hiragana)

Possible forms in kanji include:

• 素子 "unadorned, plain, undecorated, child"
• 元子 "origin, child"
• 基子 "fundamental, child"
• 資子 "resourceful, child"

People with the name

• Motoko Arai (新井 素子), Japanese writer
• Motoko Fujimoto (索子), a Japanese softball player
• Hani Motoko (羽仁 もと子), the first female Japanese journalist
• Motoko Hirotsu (広津 素子), Japanese politician
• Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite (1927–2020), American teacher
• Motoko Ishii (幹子), a Japanese lighting designer
• Motoko Katakura (1937–2013), Japanese anthropologist
• Motoko Kotani (born 1960), Japanese applied mathematician
• Motoko Kumai (統子, born 1970), a Japanese voice actress
• Motoko Obayashi (素子), a Japanese volleyball player
• Motoko Rich, American journalist, Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times
• , Japanese actress and striptease performer

Fictional characters

• Motoko-chan (もと子), the main character of the Super Famicom video game Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen
• Motoko Aoyama (素子), a character in the Love Hina series
• Motoko Kusanagi (素子), protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell series
• Motoko Maeda (前田 元子), a character in the Shiki series
• Motoko Minagawa (素子), a character in the Fruits Basket series