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Kyoko

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Kyoko has been given to 234 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 2001, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Kyoko, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kyoko: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Japanese

What Kyoko means

Kyoko is a alternate transcription of Kanji.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kyoko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kʲo̞ː.ko̞/ for Kyoko.

Origin, language, and formation

Kyoko is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanji.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Kyoko is pronounced /ˈkjoko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Kyoko between 1940 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2001; its best national rank was #4,104 in 1940.

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 Kyoko?

Kyoko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kyoko 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kyoko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kyokos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kyoko was born before 1990 — so the typical Kyoko is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Kyoko 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (12)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,104
1940

Spellings of Kyoko

Kyoko is not the most common spelling — Kyomi is, with 23.4% against Kyoko's 4.0%.

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 Kyoko is used

Across 1910–2025, Kyoko was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Kyoko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kyoko around the world

Where Kyoko 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
    1999–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • France
    2007–2007
    #5,612
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kyoko 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
#4,104
1940
Peak year
2001
12 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kyoko

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

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Sibling names for Kyoko

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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