Emiko
Emiko was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,830 among girls’ names; 1,855 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Emiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Emiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Emiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese えみこ (Emiko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Emiko?
#2,830 among girls’ names, 2025
Emiko rose from #3,616 in 2015 to #2,830 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 24.1 to 37.3 per million.
64 babies in 2022, the peak
Emiko peaked in 2022, when 64 girls were given it, #2,705 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,830 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,831 | 36.4 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,795 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,705 | 39.0 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,970 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,902 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,937 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,577 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,869 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,280 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,616 | 24.1 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,030 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,095 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,237 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 46 | #3,464 | 26.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,532 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,718 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,298 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,596 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,131 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,318 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,044 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,139 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,207 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,479 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,273 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,276 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,693 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,960 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,278 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,184 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,081 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,047 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,749 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,040 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,690 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,234 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,624 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,215 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,956 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,781 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,542 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,947 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,295 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,045 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,036 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,903 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,296 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,611 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,792 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,683 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,534 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,429 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,877 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,658 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,333 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,011 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,063 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,896 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,038 | 3.0 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,202 | 4.5 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,670 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,608 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,217 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,526 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,003 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,183 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,790 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,615 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,585 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,059 | 15.0 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,898 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,380 | 27.5 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,607 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,219 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,739 | 20.1 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,098 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,860 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,621 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,287 | 30.7 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,347 | 29.1 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,735 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,199 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,940 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,055 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,168 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,073 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Emiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emiko has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Emiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emiko, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,855 Americans ever recorded as Emiko. The median Emiko alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,376 people named Emiko (2,348 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 122 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 431 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 640 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Emiko born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,519 | 3.3× |
Where Emiko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Emiko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1916 it was given 23.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Emiko with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,998 babies since 1880, Emiko is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 74 babies (81%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emiko
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emiko and names like it
- Compare Emiko and EmikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEmiko peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Emiko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Emiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Emiko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emiko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.