Tomiko
Feminine
Tomiko is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 918 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Tomiko is Japanese, and in the American record it belongs mostly to families who were keeping two naming systems going at once — one for the form, one for the household, and not always the same name in both.
How old is the name Tomiko?
Tomiko first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Tomiko alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 500 people named Tomiko are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tomiko most popular?
Tomiko peaked in 1923, reaching #1388 nationally. See the whole 1923 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tomiko
American-born children of Japanese immigrants usually carried two names, and which one reached a government form was often a matter of circumstance rather than intention. A child might be registered with a Japanese name and called something else at school, or given an English name by a teacher and keep the Japanese one at home; families with several children sometimes split the difference, registering some one way and some the other. The record therefore holds a partial and slightly random sample of what those families actually called their children. A name like this one in the record means a household chose to write down the Japanese name — a decision, in those decades, with more weight behind it than a spelling usually carries.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The sound alone does not fix the meaning. Japanese names are written in characters, and several different characters can be read tomi — wealth is the commonest, but it is not the only one, and a name written in the Latin alphabet has lost the information that would settle it. The -ko ending means child and marks the name as a woman's.
Pronouncing Tomiko
toh-MEE-koh
Three syllables with every vowel pure and no real stress at all — Japanese does not use it. English speakers add a stress in the middle, which is the usual approximation.
Nicknames for Tomiko
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most girls named
- 196860 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1388reached in 1923
- Change vs 2000
- −28.6%5 in 2001, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tomiko in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- 富美子 in Japanese — same name
Tomikos among us
people named Tomiko are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tomiko sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every sound in it exists in English, so it is easy for anyone to say.
- It is unmistakably itself, with no near neighbors to be confused with.
- The -ko ending is transparent to anyone who knows the language and elegant to anyone who does not.
- The meaning depends on characters that an American document does not record.
- English speakers will put a stress where the language has none.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tomikos are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Tomiko are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tomiko in 2025?
- Tomiko is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Tomiko will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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