Tamiko
Tamiko was last recorded in 2002, when 6 babies were given it; 3,043 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,790 Americans named Tamiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 49 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tamiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tamiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tamiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese たみこ (Tamiko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tamiko?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,202, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
503 babies in 1975, the peak
Tamiko peaked in 1975, when 503 babies were given it (486 girls, #416 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #15,202 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,678 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,338 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,926 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,676 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,551 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,645 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,374 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | #9,264 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,253 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,824 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,042 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,643 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,710 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,269 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,152 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,055 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,525 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,957 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,949 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 134 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 158 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 250 | #625 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 486 | #416 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 131 | #949 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 174 | #773 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 210 | #694 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 171 | #818 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 133 | #959 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,017 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 309 | #554 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 45 | #1,728 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,242 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,242 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,299 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,261 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,144 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,236 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,626 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,632 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,906 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,753 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,531 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tamiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,043 Americans recorded as Tamiko, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tamiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tamiko, and how old are they?
2,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,043 Americans ever recorded as Tamiko. The median Tamiko alive today is 51 years old; half are between 49 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 2,624 people named Tamiko (2,574 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,846 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 101 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27 |
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 Tamiko born?
The states with the most babies named Tamiko are California, Michigan and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 248 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 218 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 208 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 198 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Illinois | 189 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 108 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 101 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 96 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 92 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 72 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Tamiko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tamiko is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1917 it was given 2.5 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 Tamiko 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 43,769 babies since 1880, Tamiko is the third most given (7.0% 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 Tamiko
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 Tamiko and names like it
- Compare Tamiko and TamikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTamiko peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tamiko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Tamiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tamiko.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tamiko alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.