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Kumiko

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Kumiko has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1979, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Kumiko, 2013

1 in 729,000

Kumiko over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kumiko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Kumiko means

Kumiko 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 long time, beautiful, child.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kumiko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɯᵝ.mi.ko̞/ for Kumiko.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Japanese 駒実子 (Kumiko) and many other spellings. See くみこ.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Kumiko (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kumiko is used in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Kumiko comes through Japanese 駒実子.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include 駒実子.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Kumiko is pronounced /ku.mi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 78 girls were recorded with the name Kumiko between 1918 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1979; its best national rank was #5,214 in 1918.

How common is Kumiko?

Kumiko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kumiko 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kumiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kumikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kumiko was born before 1989 — so the typical Kumiko is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
73
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Kumiko 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (8)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,214
1918

Spellings of Kumiko

Kumiko is not the most common spelling — Tamiko is, with 25.9% against Kumiko's 0.67%.

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.

Kumiko around the world

Where Kumiko 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kumiko 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
#5,214
1918
Peak year
1979
8 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kumiko

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

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Sibling names for Kumiko

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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