Miko
Miko is given to both girls and boys: 23 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,505 among girls’ names and #2,743 among boys’, #4,487 among all names counting both); 1,593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Miko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miko is “a transliteration of a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miko?
#2,743 among boys’ names, 2025
Miko rose from #3,559 in 2015 to #2,743 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 27.5 per million.
97 babies in 2023, the peak
Miko peaked in 2023, when 97 babies were given it (78 boys, #1,980 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,505 | 47 | #2,743 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,020 | 57 | #2,436 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,326 | 78 | #1,980 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,386 | 75 | #2,032 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,359 | 57 | #2,400 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,350 | 40 | #2,961 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,536 | 46 | #2,751 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,455 | 43 | #2,829 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,740 | 30 | #3,639 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,715 | 35 | #3,271 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,635 | 31 | #3,559 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,955 | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,281 | 27 | #3,820 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,495 | 18 | #5,176 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,928 | 21 | #4,609 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,943 | 25 | #4,072 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,587 | 18 | #5,242 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,410 | 18 | #5,186 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,905 | 18 | #5,141 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,104 | 17 | #5,230 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,627 | 15 | #5,475 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,902 | 13 | #6,025 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,022 | 23 | #3,802 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,266 | 11 | #6,374 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,694 | 9 | #7,305 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 17 | #4,499 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,843 | 8 | #7,628 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,834 | 13 | #5,081 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,466 | 13 | #4,852 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,378 | 7 | #7,696 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,802 | 14 | #4,430 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,856 | 21 | #3,292 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,242 | 8 | #6,626 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,508 | 12 | #4,760 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,923 | 15 | #3,948 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,291 | 7 | #6,910 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,497 | 10 | #5,053 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,488 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,526 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,040 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,604 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,653 | 5 | #6,954 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,689 | 6 | #6,140 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,169 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,893 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,018 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,429 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,662 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,400 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,500 | 7 | #4,632 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,969 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,613 | |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,362 | 5 | #5,496 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,524 | 5 | #5,397 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,406 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,908 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,785 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,035 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,357 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Miko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,593 Americans recorded as Miko, 38% are girls and 62% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Miko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miko, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,593 Americans ever recorded as Miko. The median Miko alive today is 14 years old; half are between 5 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,381 people named Miko (614 women and girls, 767 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 227 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 381 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 767 |
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 Miko born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,938 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,831 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Miko 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 219,856 babies since 1880, Miko is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 516 babies (14%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Miko
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 Miko and names like it
- Compare Miko and MikeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMiko peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Miko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Miko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Miko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.