Miyoko
Miyoko was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,259 among girls’ names; 636 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miyoko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miyoko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miyoko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese みよこ (Miyoko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miyoko?
#6,259 among girls’ names, 2025
Miyoko rose from #14,015 in 2015 to #6,259 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 11.8 per million.
39 babies in 1924, the peak
Miyoko peaked in 1924, when 39 girls were given it, #1,296 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,259 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,819 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,033 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,456 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,755 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,326 | 5.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,015 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,108 | 3.9 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,993 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,331 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #12,137 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,820 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,514 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,673 | 5.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,730 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,140 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,200 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,920 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,313 | 3.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,701 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,734 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,015 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,084 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,682 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,653 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,205 | 14.1 |
| 1931 | 17 | #2,005 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,085 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,274 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,663 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,226 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,609 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,492 | 25.5 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,296 | 31.2 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,549 | 24.0 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,531 | 25.0 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,808 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,341 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,965 | 16.8 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,631 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,233 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,461 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,678 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,017 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,537 | 8.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miyoko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Miyoko has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Miyoko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miyoko, and how old are they?
An estimated 173 Americans named Miyoko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 4 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 933 people named Miyoko (925 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 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.
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 Miyoko born?
The states with the most babies named Miyoko 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 | 229 | not ranked | 86.3× |
| California | 144 | #3,002 | 4.2× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Miyoko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miyoko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1913 it was given 86.3 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 Miyoko 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,628 babies since 1880, Miyoko is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 38 babies (50%), 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 Miyoko
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Yoshiko | 1,331 |
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 Miyoko and names like it
- Compare Miyoko and MiyukiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMiyoko peaked in 1924.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miyoko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Miyoko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Miyoko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Miyoko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.