Kiyoko
Kiyoko was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,569 among girls’ names; 923 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiyoko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiyoko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiyoko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese きよこ (Kiyoko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiyoko?
#12,569 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiyoko fell from #9,833 in 2015 to #12,569 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 4.4 per million.
58 babies in 1921, the peak
Kiyoko peaked in 1921, when 58 girls were given it, #979 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,569 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,923 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,984 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,822 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,958 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,853 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,918 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,441 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,163 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,833 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #8,820 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,049 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,512 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,519 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,603 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,889 | 4.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,684 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,287 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,130 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,548 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,629 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,502 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,816 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,226 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,065 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,928 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,253 | 4.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,731 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,586 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,938 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,501 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,833 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,218 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,735 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,068 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,370 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,857 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,653 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,290 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,342 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,392 | 27.9 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,270 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 56 | #1,009 | 46.4 |
| 1922 | 56 | #1,001 | 46.6 |
| 1921 | 58 | #979 | 47.0 |
| 1920 | 55 | #998 | 45.9 |
| 1919 | 41 | #1,169 | 36.3 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,315 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,118 | 37.9 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,154 | 36.4 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,919 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,783 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,716 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,250 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiyoko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kiyoko has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kiyoko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiyoko, and how old are they?
An estimated 226 Americans named Kiyoko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,094 people named Kiyoko (1,085 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 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.
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 Kiyoko born?
The states with the most babies named Kiyoko are Hawaii, California and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 364 | not ranked | 96.0× |
| California | 244 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Kiyoko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kiyoko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1912 it was given 96.0 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 Kiyoko 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 1,289 babies since 1880, Kiyoko is the most given (72% 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 Kiyoko
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 Kiyoko and names like it
- Compare Kiyoko and KyokoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sKiyoko peaked in 1921.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiyoko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kiyoko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Kiyoko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiyoko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.