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Tsuneko

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Tsuneko has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1930, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Tsuneko, 1930

1 in 318,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tsuneko: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Tsuneko means

Tsuneko is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tsuneko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Tsuneko between 1914 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1930; its best national rank was #4,010 in 1930.

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 Tsuneko?

Tsuneko 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 318,000
7 of 2,223,243 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
220,149 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tsuneko 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 220,149 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tsuneko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tsunekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tsuneko was born before 1923 — so the typical Tsuneko is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
48.8% 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 — 48.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Tsuneko 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 1930 (7)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,010
1930

Where Tsuneko is used

Across 1910–2025, Tsuneko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 92,374 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000

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

Tsuneko 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
#4,010
1930
Peak year
1930
7 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Tsuneko

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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