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Mieko

#14,352 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful

Mieko has been given to 321 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #14,352 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Mieko, 2025

1 in 553,000

Mieko over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mieko: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mieko means

Mieko means “beautiful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mieko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.e̞.ko̞/ for Mieko.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 girls were recorded with the name Mieko between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,626 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,536 in 2020 to #14,352 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,258 in 2015 to #14,352 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mieko between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #13,387 in 2015.

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.

How common is Mieko?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,352
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mieko 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mieko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mieko was born before 1973 — so the typical Mieko is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
166
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Mieko 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
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,906
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 1924 (14)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,626
1924

Spellings of Mieko

Mieko is not the most common spelling — Mika is, with 24.3% against Mieko's 1.1%.

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 Mieko is used

Across 1910–2025, Mieko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 181,040 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,556
  2. 2California1 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. Mieko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mieko around the world

Where Mieko 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
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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

Mieko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,352
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 184
Best rank ever
#2,626
1924
Peak year
1924
14 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,387
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mieko

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

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Sibling names for Mieko

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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