Miyako

Girls' name

Beautiful

Miyako has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1922, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Miyako, 2023

1 in 552,000

Miyako over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miyako: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful

Japanese

What Miyako means

Miyako means “beautiful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Miyako is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.jä.ko̞/ for Miyako.

Origin, language, and formation

Miyako is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 178 girls were recorded with the name Miyako between 1912 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1922; its best national rank was #3,292 in 1912.

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 Miyako?

Miyako had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 552,000; 6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 267,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 382,940 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Miyako 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miyako. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miyakos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miyako was born before 1979 — so the typical Miyako is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 41.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 98; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Miyako 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: 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 1922 (9)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,292; 1912

Spellings of Miyako

Miyako is not the most common spelling — Miya is, with 50.5% against Miyako's 1.1%.

Miya50.5%8,071
Miyah22.2%3,550
Kiyoko5.8%923
Masako5.1%821
Miyana4.1%660
Miyoko4.0%636
Miko3.8%613
Ayako3.4%543

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 Miyako is used

Across 1910–2025, Miyako was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 549,155 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 20,000
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. Miyako has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miyako around the world

Where Miyako 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.

Canada
2020–2020
#3,347
in 2020

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Miyako 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: #3,292; 1912
Peak year: 1922; 9 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 178
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Miyako

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

Miyani Miyuki Miyori Miyonna Miyoko Miyana Miyuri Miyla Miyeko Miyu Miyanna Miylah Miyari Miyomi Hanako Miyanni Miyoni Miyoshi Fusako Miyona Takako Miyabi Sadako Hisako

Sibling names for Miyako

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

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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