Mieko
Mieko was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,352 among girls’ names; 321 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mieko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mieko?
#14,352 among girls’ names, 2025
Mieko rose from #18,258 in 2015 to #14,352 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
14 babies in 1924, the peak
Mieko peaked in 1924, when 14 girls were given it, #2,626 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,352 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,935 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,536 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,214 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,155 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,987 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,258 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,355 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,937 | 5.1 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,894 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,473 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,794 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,724 | 3.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,303 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,034 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,767 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,542 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,816 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,540 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,506 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,768 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,301 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,116 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,823 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,640 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,883 | 6.2 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,662 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,257 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,702 | 10.3 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,688 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,366 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,213 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,457 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,569 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,626 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,286 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,093 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,324 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,038 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,698 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,170 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,924 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mieko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 321 Americans recorded as Mieko, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mieko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mieko, and how old are they?
An estimated 172 Americans named Mieko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 11 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,140 people named Mieko (1,117 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.7 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,566 babies since 1880, Mieko is the seventh most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 200 babies (3.0%), the fourth most given that year.
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.
More about Mieko and names like it
- Compare Mieko and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMieko peaked in 1924.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mieko since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Mieko.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mieko alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.