Hideko

Girls' name

Excellent, outstanding or excellent, fine

Hideko has been given to 338 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Hideko, 1943

1 in 353,000

Hideko over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hideko: meaning, origin, and history

Excellent, outstanding or excellent, fine

Japanese

What Hideko means

Hideko means “excellent, outstanding or excellent, fine”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hideko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /çi.de̞.ko̞/ for Hideko.

Origin, language, and formation

Hideko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 338 girls were recorded with the name Hideko between 1915 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,639 in 1927.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hideko?

Hideko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943: 1 in 353,000; 8 of 2,822,499 births
Among girls only: 1 in 174,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1943: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 244,552 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hideko sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1943 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 244,552 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hideko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hidekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hideko was born before 1924 — so the typical Hideko is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 63.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 63.9% of all recorded uses (216).

Is Hideko rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (26)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,639; 1927

Where Hideko is used

Across 1910–2025, Hideko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 66,163 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

131 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 3,226
2California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hideko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hideko by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,639; 1927
Peak year: 1922; 26 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1943
All-time count: 338
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hideko

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Hidaya Hidayah Mieko Chieko Tameko Kameko Yoneko Tomeko Shigeko Miyeko Sueko Yaeko Chiyeko Hidie Neko Hidi Takeko Timeko Taeko Umeko Meko Tsuneko Tayeko Kimeko

Sibling names for Hideko

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus Olen Emile

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