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Tomiko

Girls' name

Wealth, abundance + child

Tomiko has been given to 925 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 1968, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Tomiko, 2001

1 in 748,000

Tomiko over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tomiko: meaning, origin, and history

Wealth, abundance + child

Japanese

What Tomiko means

Tomiko means “wealth, abundance + child”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tomiko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /to̞.mi.ko̞/ for Tomiko.

Origin, language, and formation

Tomiko is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Tomiko comes through Japanese とみこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Tomiko is pronounced /toˈmiko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 918 girls were recorded with the name Tomiko between 1912 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1968; its best national rank was #1,426 in 1923.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Tomiko between 1975 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,761 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 Tomiko?

Tomiko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tomiko 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomiko was born before 1969 — so the typical Tomiko is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
553
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Tomiko 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (60)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,426
1923

Spellings of Tomiko

Tomiko is not the most common spelling — Tamika is, with 49.8% against Tomiko's 2.0%.

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 Tomiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Tomiko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 139,166 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

037 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,703
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Mississippi1 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. Tomiko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tomiko 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
#1,426
1923
Peak year
1968
60 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
918
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,761
1975
Peak year
1975
7 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tomiko

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

TomasaTommiMarikoTommyeTomicaTommyKimikoTomaraMichikoAkikoKeikoTomekiaTomikaNamikoYumikoTomiTomekaTomieYurikoEmikoFumikoTomasitaSumikoTommie

Sibling names for Tomiko

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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