Tomiko
Tomiko was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 925 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tomiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tomiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tomiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese とみこ (Tomiko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tomiko?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,780, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1975, the peak
Tomiko peaked in 1975, when 61 babies were given it (54 girls, #1,754 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,780 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,048 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,421 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,401 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,325 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,325 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,439 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,267 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,692 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,310 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 6 | #10,816 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,328 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,673 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,885 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,777 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,525 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,410 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,444 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,995 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,384 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,754 | 37.0 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,289 | 23.8 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,016 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,091 | 25.0 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,726 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,850 | 14.3 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,513 | 16.6 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,471 | 36.6 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,640 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,769 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,257 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,563 | 10.9 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,134 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,799 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,620 | 11.2 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,197 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,542 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,651 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,777 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,033 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,765 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,474 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,640 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,426 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,892 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,043 | 16.2 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,070 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,644 | 22.1 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,877 | 18.1 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,915 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,483 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,369 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,569 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,393 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tomiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tomiko has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tomiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tomiko, and how old are they?
An estimated 539 Americans named Tomiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 48 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,027 people named Tomiko (995 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 Tomiko born?
The states with the most babies named Tomiko are Hawaii, California and Georgia, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 171 | not ranked | 44.0× |
| California | 130 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| District of Columbia | 5 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tomiko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tomiko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1912 it was given 44.0 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 Tomiko 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 8,568 babies since 1880, Tomiko is the third most given (11% 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 Tomiko
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Wenona | 1,168 |
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 Tomiko and names like it
- Compare Tomiko and TomekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTomiko peaked in 1975.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tomiko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Tomiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Tomiko.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tomiko alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.