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Takako

Girls' name

Filial piety + child

Takako has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1921, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Takako, 1974

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takako: meaning, origin, and history

Filial piety + child

Japanese

What Takako means

Takako means “filial piety + child”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Takako is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.kä.ko̞/ for Takako.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Takako comes through Japanese たかこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Takako is pronounced /ta.ka.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 girls were recorded with the name Takako between 1916 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,856 in 1926.

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 Takako?

Takako had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1974
1 in 608,000
5 of 3,039,803 births
Among girls only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1974
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,407 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takako 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 1974 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 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takako. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takakos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takako was born before 1926 — so the typical Takako is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5
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Choose a decade

1920s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (76).

Is Takako 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 1921 (12)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,856
1926

Spellings of Takako

Takako is not the most common spelling — Tamiko is, with 44.3% against Takako's 2.2%.

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 Takako is used

Across 1910–2025, Takako was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 969,097 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  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. Takako has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takako 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
#2,856
1926
Peak year
1921
12 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Takako

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

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Sibling names for Takako

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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