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Yumiko

#5,399 in 2025Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Yumiko has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #5,399 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Yumiko, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yumiko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Yumiko means

Yumiko 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 archery bow, reason, cause, beautiful, child.

Origin, language, and formation

Yumiko is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yumiko is pronounced /ju.mi.ko/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 290 girls were recorded with the name Yumiko between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,210 in 1977.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,346 in 2015 to #5,399 in 2025.

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 Yumiko?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,399
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yumiko 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 2025 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yumiko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yumikos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yumiko was born before 2004 — so the typical Yumiko is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
290
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Yumiko 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
+2,543
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+10,947
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (24)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,210
1977

Spellings of Yumiko

Yumiko is not the most common spelling — Tamiko is, with 25.8% against Yumiko's 2.5%.

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 Yumiko is used

Across 1910–2025, Yumiko was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 762,513 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Yumiko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yumiko around the world

Where Yumiko 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.

  • France
    2010–2019
    #6,297
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1983–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yumiko by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,210
1977
Peak year
2025
24 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Yumiko

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

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Sibling names for Yumiko

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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