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Michiko

#11,585 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful

Michiko has been given to 1,010 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #11,585 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Michiko, 2025

1 in 414,000

Michiko over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michiko: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Japanese

What Michiko means

Michiko means “beautiful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Michiko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.t͡ɕi.ko̞/ for Michiko.

Origin, language, and formation

Michiko is used in English, French and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Michiko comes through Japanese みちこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Michiko is pronounced /mit.ʃi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,010 girls were recorded with the name Michiko between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,314 in 1924.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,774 in 2015 to #11,585 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 Michiko?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,585
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michiko 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michiko was born before 1940 — so the typical Michiko is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
478
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Choose a decade

1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (297).

Is Michiko 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
+3,102
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,189
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.1%
Peak was 1924 (38)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,314
1924

Spellings of Michiko

Michiko is the most-used spelling, taking 42.7% of the 2,363 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Michiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Michiko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,125 girls, against 1 in 42,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

132 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 3,125
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Washington1 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. Michiko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michiko around the world

Where Michiko 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.

Michiko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,314
1924
Peak year
1924
38 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,010
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Michiko

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

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Sibling names for Michiko

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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