Hanako is a female Japanese given name. The name can have different meanings, one of them being 花子, meaning "flower child", and another being 華子 (華 is a kanji of many uses - 'splendor', 'flower', 'petal', 'shine', 'luster', 'ostentatious', 'showy'. 子 is the second kanji, meaning 'child').
It is often seen as an archetypal name for females. It was a popular name for female elephants in Japan imported in the late 1940s and early 1950s; the first part of the name, Hana, could be taken as reference to an elephant's nose.
People Hanako Footman (born 1994), British-Japanese actress and writer Hanako Greensmith (born 1996), American actress , Japanese politician , Japanese politician , Japanese gymnast , Japanese novelist and translator , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese lawyer and politician , Japanese singer and songwriter , Japanese singer , Japanese actress, tarento and gravure idol , Japanese actress and tarento Hanako Tsugaru, later Hanako, Princess Hitachi of Japan , Japanese professional wrestler , Japanese rugby sevens player Hisa Ōta (1868–1945), Japanese actress whose stage name was "Hanako"
Fictional characters Hanako (ハナコ) or Delia Ketchum, the mother of protagonist Ash Ketchum (Satoshi) in the Pokémon anime Hanako, a character of the manga Hanako and the Terror of Allegory Hanako, a character of the drama Hanako to Anne Hanako Hanazawa, a classmate character from Sazae-san 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 Sonoyama, a character from Little Battlers Experience WARS Hanako Urawa, a character from Blue Archive Hanako Yamada, a character of the video game Yandere Simulator Hanako Yumadagi, a main and protagonist of character of anime series Ongaku Shoujo
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Hanako (elephant) (1947–2016), an elephant who lived in Japan Hanako (fish), a fish which lived to be more than 200 years old
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