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Taeko

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Taeko has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Taeko, 1930

1 in 371,000

Taeko over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taeko: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Taeko means

Taeko is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Taeko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 girls were recorded with the name Taeko between 1917 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,313 in 1917.

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 Taeko?

Taeko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930
1 in 371,000
6 of 2,223,243 births
Among girls only
1 in 188,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
256,840 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taeko 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 1930 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 256,840 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taeko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taeko was born before 1924 — so the typical Taeko is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
73.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 73.0% of all recorded uses (54).

Is Taeko 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 1917 (9)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,313
1917

Spellings of Taeko

Taeko is not the most common spelling — Tameka is, with 51.2% against Taeko's 0.30%.

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 Taeko is used

Across 1910–2025, Taeko was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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

Taeko around the world

Where Taeko 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.

  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,363
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Taeko 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
#3,313
1917
Peak year
1917
9 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taeko

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

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Sibling names for Taeko

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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