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This is my name, and I love it very much!
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Yōko Hikasa is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with I'm Enterprise. Hikasa aspired to become a voice actress after watching Sailor Moon, and later attended Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyūjo, a voice actor training school. She is a member of the five-girl pop music group Ro-Kyu-Bu!, along with Kana Hanazawa, Yuka Iguchi, Rina Hidaka and Yui Ogura. The group takes its name from the anime series Ro-Kyu-Bu!; the five members voice main characters in the series. Their first single "Shoot!" was released on August 17, 2011 and was used as the opening theme of Ro-Kyu-Bu!. Ro-Kyu-Bu! Put out the album Pure Elements on October 5, 2011.
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Youko Shiragami is one of the main characters in the anime Jitsu wa Watashi Wa. She's a half-vampire who tries to be a normal high school student.
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To say YOh-koh would be correct, as in Japanese, you pronoune the 'o' as oh, and followed by the 'u' is like the double 'u' in vacuum, it makes the sound last longer. If you wrote it in Japanese, you could write it ヨウコ or ヨーコ which equates to the same spelling in Romaji, Roman Letters.
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I know a woman named Yooko who pronounces her name "YOH-ko." I don't know for certain if that's the most common Japanese pronunciation, as she is from Hawaii, but I think it's lovely.
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It sounds like "your child".
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It entered the top ten as 洋子(ocean + child) as early as 1931. It reached #1 in 1942 and 1955 and left the top 10 in 1967.
One year before 洋子 (ocean + child) left the top 10, 陽子 (light, sun + child) entered it in 1966. It was #1 from 1971-1974. It was last in the top 10 in 1982.
Both spellings were popular with 洋子 (ocean + child) being popular first and 陽子 (light, sun + child) gaining popularity later on.