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Kimiko

#6,989 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Kimiko has been given to 1,843 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #6,989 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 80 recorded.

Babies named Kimiko, 2025

1 in 207,000

Kimiko over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kimiko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Kimiko means

Kimiko is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include valuable, beautiful, lord, noble, child.

Origin, language, and formation

Kimiko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,843 girls were recorded with the name Kimiko between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 80 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,269 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,397 in 2020 to #6,989 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,818 in 2015 to #6,989 in 2025.

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 Kimiko?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,989
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kimiko 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kimiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kimikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kimiko was born before 1983 — so the typical Kimiko is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,350
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1980s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (337).

Is Kimiko 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
−2,375
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,592
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+829
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 1981 (80)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,269
1924

Spellings of Kimiko

Kimiko is not the most common spelling — Tamiko is, with 19.9% against Kimiko's 12.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kimiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Kimiko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 61,013 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

046 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,174
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

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. Kimiko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kimiko around the world

Where Kimiko ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,823
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kimiko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,989
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,592
Best rank ever
#1,269
1924
Peak year
1981
80 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,843
Count in 2025
16

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

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Sibling names for Kimiko

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

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