Yaeko

Yaeko

Gender	Female
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Region of origin	Japan

Yaeko is a female Japanese given name.[1]

People

• Yaeko Batchelor (バチェラー 八重子, 1884–1962), Ainu waka poet and evangelist.
• Yamamoto Yaeko (山本 八重子, 1845–1932), Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima
• Yaeko Mizutani I (水谷 八重子, 1905–1979), Japanese actress
• Yaeko Nogami (野上 弥生子, 1885–1985), Japanese novelist
• Yaeko Yamazaki (山崎 八重子, born 1950), Japanese volleyball player
• Yaeko Taguchi (田口 八重子, born 1955), Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea
• Yaeko Uehara, a geiko and Mineko Iwasaki's older sister.

References

1. Breen, Jim. "Japanese Names (ENAMDICT)". Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 2014-04-14.