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Yaeko

Girls' name

Multilayered + child

Yaeko has been given to 439 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 1922, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Yaeko, 1936

1 in 231,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaeko: meaning, origin, and history

Multilayered + child

Japanese

What Yaeko means

Yaeko means “multilayered + child”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yaeko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jä.e̞.ko̞/ for Yaeko.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Yaeko comes through Japanese やえこ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yaeko is pronounced /ja.e.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 439 girls were recorded with the name Yaeko between 1912 and 1936. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,507 in 1922.

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 Yaeko?

Yaeko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1936, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1936
1 in 231,000
9 of 2,077,561 births
Among girls only
1 in 116,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1936
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
160,007 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaeko 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 1936 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 160,007 children born in 1936 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaeko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yaekos were born

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

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1920s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Yaeko 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 1922 (31)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,507
1922

Spellings of Yaeko

Yaeko is not the most common spelling — Yael is, with 61.9% against Yaeko's 6.0%.

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 Yaeko is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaeko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,613 girls, against 1 in 55,770 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

062 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,613
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 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. Yaeko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaeko 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
#1,507
1922
Peak year
1922
31 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1936
All-time count
439
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yaeko

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

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Sibling names for Yaeko

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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