Shizuko — girls' name
620 babies named Shizuko in U.S. Social Security records since 1908, with the highest year being 1921. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Shizuko was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Shizuko in 1921 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shizuko
The Social Security Administration has registered 620 babies named Shizuko between 1908 and 1937, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shizuko currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1937. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shizuko performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 298 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shizuko shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 330 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Shizuko in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shizuko in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 620 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Shizuko at a glance
Last recorded 1937Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shizuko popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1937–1908
- Peak year (1921)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1937.
620 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1921 with 43 births in a single year.
Shizuko by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 298 births that decade — 48% of Shizuko's all-time total
Shizuko decade highlights
- Peak decade 298 births
- Runner-up 272 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Shizuko's strongest decade
298 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Shizuko by state
Where Shizuko concentrates geographically — total births since 1908
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 330 | 53.2% |
| #2 | California | | 192 | 31.0% |
| #3 | Washington | | 5 | 0.8% |
330 of 620 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 53.2% of nationwide
- California 31.0% of nationwide
- Washington 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 53.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1908–1937 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.