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Momoko

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Momoko has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 13 recorded.

Babies named Momoko, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Momoko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Momoko means

Momoko 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 hundred, peach, child.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Momoko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mo̞.mo̞.ko̞/ for Momoko.

Origin, language, and formation

Momoko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 girls were recorded with the name Momoko between 1985 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,043 in 2001.

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 Momoko?

Momoko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Momoko 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Momoko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Momokos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Momoko was born before 1999 — so the typical Momoko is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Momoko 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (13)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,043
2001

Spellings of Momoko

Momoko is not the most common spelling — Tomiko is, with 53.9% against Momoko's 8.8%.

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.

Momoko around the world

Where Momoko 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
    2008–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1991–1991
    #3,800
    in 1991

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.

Momoko 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
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Best rank ever
#8,043
2001
Peak year
2001
13 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Momoko

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

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Sibling names for Momoko

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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