Yoko

原Yoko Yazawa is a Japanese singer-songwriter, formerly the lead vocalist of The Generous. She is Eikichi Yazawa's eldest daughter, and her mother is one quarter American. While she was 12, she went to school in Los Angeles at the Ojai Valley School and Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. In 2010, she made her solo debut with her self-titled album. She is also featured on Joe Inoue's album Dos Angeles as a featured vocalist on the song "Animal"; the two singers originally met in high school in Los Angeles. She is currently the lead vocalist for the group, Piggy Banks, formed in 2014.

原Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks on anime films, television series, live-action films, video games, and advertisements. She was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. She has written scores for Cowboy Bebop, Darker than Black, Macross Plus, Turn A Gundam, The Vision of Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Zankyō no Terror, and has worked with the directors Yoshiyuki Tomino, Shinichiro Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori. Kanno has also composed music for pop artists Maaya Sakamoto and Kyōko Koizumi. She is also a keyboardist, and is the frontwoman for the Seatbelts, who perform many of Kanno's compositions and soundtracks.

原Yōko Hikasa is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with I'm Enterprise.

原Yoko Watanabe was a Japanese operatic soprano who spent much of her career singing the title role of Madame Butterfly all over Europe.She was also known for her large repertoire including such works as Micaela in Carmen, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Marguerite in Faust and Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Watanabe died after a long battle with cancer in her Milan home at the age of 51.

原Yoko Kikuchi is a fourth-generation American artist and singer/songwriter of Japanese and Filipino descent, associated with the Antifolk community of New York's East Village. Born in New York City to parents involved in the visual arts, she was raised in SoHo and Hell's Kitchen, attending public schools including Wagner JHS 167 and Stuyvesant High School. It was at those schools where she met Ann Zakaluk, with whom she co-fronted the Antifolk indie pop band Dream Bitches between 2004 and 2009. Although she is self-taught on the guitar, her ear for harmonies is due to her ten-year involvement in the Young People's Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco J. Núñez, with which she toured and competed both nationally and internationally.

原Yoko Takahi is a Japanese singer, perhaps best known for performing (Zankoku na tenshi no tēze, "A Cruel Angel's Thesis"), the opening theme tune of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. She also performs the closing theme, an "acid bossa" version of "FLY ME TO THE MOON" and (Tamashii no Rufuran, Refrain of Soul), the closing theme of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. She also recently performed "Metamorphose," the opening theme to studio Gainax's 20th anniversary series, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, the ending theme (Yoake Umarekuru Shoujo) for the anime(Shakugan no Shana) and the opening theme Aoki Flamme (Pumpkin Scissors).

原Yoko Takahashi is a Japanese female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and kickboxer and former boxer and professional wrestler. Takahashi is a former Smackgirl open weight champion. She is considered Japan's first female mixed martial artist. Takahashi debuted as a professional wrestler with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJWPW) promotion in 1994 and kept participating until the end of 1996, when she decided not to continue with professional wrestling due to a hernia in her back. She became a part-time referee for promotion Yoshimoto Pro-Wrestling Jd', where she met her long-time partner Megumi Yabushita. They both left Jd' in 2002.

原Yōko Aramaki is a Japanese singer and impressionist connected to the K-Dash-associated office Peach. She is a graduate of Shujitsu High School. While she aimed to become a singer since childhood, she is also trained in piano and enka. In November 2012, she announced she would take a break from singing to recuperate.

原Yoko is a character in the cartoon Timothy Goes to School.

原There's the awesome character Yoko Littner from the anime series Gurren Lagann. She is the lead female character and a great fighter, and a reason why I began to like this name a bit more. Also as noted above, there's the Japanese composer Yoko Kanno, who has created some truly spectacular soundtracks, though her best-known is probably her music for the anime Cowboy Bebop.

原I really like this name because, before I think of Yoko Ono, I think of Yoko Kanno, who is a wonderful Japanese composer, and my personal idol in terms of music.

原Really lilyana'Who would want to name their kid after that horrible woman Yoko Ono, who used her hypnotic powers to entice poor, unsuspecting John Lennon into her filthy claws? That in and of itself is enough to strike this one off my baby naming list. Plus, this is the sound my cat makes when it is throwing up a hairball. "Yoko, Yoko, Yoko!""Uh-oh, Felix just coughed up a furball! Someone ought to clean that up!"Lastly, it sounds too much like Yolk, which reminds me of that icky yellow stuff that is a potential chicken. And you eat it for breakfast.'First off that no way to talk about Yoko because John was a grown man and if he wasn't smart enough to stand up to himself then he wasn't worth it. I thinks it a shame that this smart intellectual woman is forever branded because of him and it was obvious that John was always a hippy. Yoko was the only person that helped him accomplished that goal and fight for his dreams, so stop talking about her like that. It could happen to anybody.

原That is a very mean thing to say. Some people have the name Yoko, and I bet no one's naming their kid that because of Yoko Ono. There have been many wonderful people named Yoko, and I think you should try to ignore the "bad" people who have this name and think of the good. I personally like this name, and I'm not Japanese. Just felt like I had to stand up for all the Yokos out there.

原Who would want to name their kid after that horrible woman Yoko Ono, who used her hypnotic powers to entice poor, unsuspecting John Lennon into her filthy claws? That in and of itself is enough to strike this one off my baby naming list. Plus, this is the sound my cat makes when it is throwing up a hairball. "Yoko, Yoko, Yoko!""Uh-oh, Felix just coughed up a furball! someone ought to clean that up!"Lastly, it sounds too much like Yolk, which reminds me of that icky yellow stuff that is a potential chicken. And you eat it for breakfast.

原I don't like this name. The Grudge association is horrible, and even worse is that of Yoko Ono, who is rather annoying in my opinion.

原It's actually a nice name in my opinion, sweet. I would never name my child that though, 1) I am not Japanese 2) It's not my kind of name3) It's one of the characters in "The Grudge" and she died a scary death.

原A main character in Marathon's Team Galaxy TV series. 15-year-old Yoko aspires to be a pop idol althought she cannot carry out a tune.

原In Koji Suzuki's novel 'Ring', Yoko Asakawa is the one-year-old daughter of the Protagonist Kazuyuki Asakawa. She, along with her mother, dies of a mysterious disease in 'Spiral'.

原The main character in the anime Space Warship is Yamamoto Yoko.

原John Lennon did use the phrase "ocean child" in reference to Yoko in Julia. The song is as much about Yoko as it is about Julia.

原That is interesting, because John Lennon used the words "ocean child" in the song Julia, about his mother. I wonder if the inspiration came from Yoko.

原In Case Closed (Detective Conan), there is a pop idol named Yoko Okino.

原Yoko Kanno, famous music producer/artist for many various animes.

原Depending on the Kanji, or Japanese characters, used, the name Yoko can also mean "Chrysanthemum Child" or, "Ocean Child" (the latter being the case for the famous Yoko Ono). [noted -ed]

原It is also the name of the legendary fox-demon bandit Yoko Kurama from an anime/manga: Yu Yu Hakusho.

原Can also mean "leaf child" or "big sea child".Used excessively in generations gone by, not as common in under 20 crowd (though still used). I've known lots of Yokos. It's almost as popular as Keiko, probably.

原I've read that this name could also mean "good girl".

原Yoko Ono is the widow of Beatle John Lennon.