Kimiko
Kimiko was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,989 among girls’ names; 1,843 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Kimiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 17 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kimiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kimiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kimiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese きみこ.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kimiko?
#6,989 among girls’ names, 2025
Kimiko rose from #7,818 in 2015 to #6,989 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 10.0 per million.
80 babies in 1981, the peak
Kimiko peaked in 1981, when 80 girls were given it, #1,509 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,989 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,614 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,153 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,351 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,778 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,397 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,849 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,971 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,089 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,080 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,818 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,960 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,364 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,015 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,426 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,514 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,805 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,041 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,960 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,723 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,357 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,105 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,793 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,254 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,069 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,891 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,945 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,476 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,073 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,669 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,030 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,752 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,045 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,860 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,243 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,980 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,207 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,945 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,318 | 26.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,819 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,738 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,845 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,616 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,982 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,509 | 48.0 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,506 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,243 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,843 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,135 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,751 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,244 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,777 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,169 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,405 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,756 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,224 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,528 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,888 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,788 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,663 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,149 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,307 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,597 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,705 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,082 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,610 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,547 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,567 | 2.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,368 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,680 | 6.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,674 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,041 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,990 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,632 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,778 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,748 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,664 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,157 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,789 | 18.8 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,329 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,135 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,905 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,771 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,269 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 37 | #1,291 | 30.7 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,412 | 27.5 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,082 | 15.4 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,922 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,626 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,624 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,681 | 20.3 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,316 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,918 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,962 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,673 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,666 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,596 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,676 | 23.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kimiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kimiko has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kimiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kimiko, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 1,843 Americans ever recorded as Kimiko. The median Kimiko alive today is 34 years old; half are between 17 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,022 people named Kimiko (2,007 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 50 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 222 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 468 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 299 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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 Kimiko born?
The states with the most babies named Kimiko are California, Hawaii and Texas, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 593 | #2,940 | 3.2× |
| Hawaii | 213 | not ranked | 28.5× |
| Texas | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kimiko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kimiko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 28.5 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 Kimiko 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,008 babies since 1880, Kimiko is the most given (92% of them).
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 Kimiko
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jeneva | 1,073 |
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 Kimiko and names like it
- Compare Kimiko and KimikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKimiko peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kimiko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kimiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Kimiko.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kimiko alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.