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Tamiko

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Tamiko has been given to 3,043 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 1975, with 486 recorded.

Babies named Tamiko, 2002

1 in 623,000

Tamiko over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tamiko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Tamiko means

Tamiko 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 many, beautiful, child.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tamiko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.mi.ko̞/ for Tamiko.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Tamiko comes through Japanese たみこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Tamiko is pronounced /ta.mi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,001 girls were recorded with the name Tamiko between 1917 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 486 in 1975; its best national rank was #416 in 1975.

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Tamiko between 1971 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,527 in 1975.

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 Tamiko?

Tamiko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 623,000
6 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
431,748 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tamiko 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 2002 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 431,748 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tamiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tamikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tamiko was born before 1974 — so the typical Tamiko is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
63.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,943
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (1,901).

Is Tamiko 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 1975 (486)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#416
1975

Spellings of Tamiko

Tamiko is not the most common spelling — Tami is, with 30.8% against Tamiko's 2.4%.

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 Tamiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Tamiko was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 62,035 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 50,000

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

Tamiko around the world

Where Tamiko 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
    1983–1983
    #686
    in 1983

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

Notable people named Tamiko

People whose public names include Tamiko, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tamiko 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
#416
1975
Peak year
1975
486 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
3,001
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,527
1975
Peak year
1975
17 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tamiko

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

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Names with a curve like Tamiko

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tamiko, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tamiko

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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