Toshiko
Toshiko was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 799 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toshiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Toshiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Toshiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Toshiko?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,067, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1923, the peak
Toshiko peaked in 1923, when 58 girls were given it, #989 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #12,067 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,970 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,077 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,507 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,994 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,851 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,211 | 3.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,620 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,460 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,503 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 | #5,185 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,533 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,973 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,888 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,917 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,864 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,838 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,399 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,174 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,043 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,482 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,095 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 18 | #2,015 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,757 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,373 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,665 | 21.8 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,275 | 32.1 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,062 | 42.7 |
| 1924 | 45 | #1,183 | 36.0 |
| 1923 | 58 | #989 | 48.1 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,142 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,203 | 34.1 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,346 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 54 | #981 | 47.8 |
| 1918 | 41 | #1,182 | 35.4 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,371 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,327 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,223 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,534 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,017 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,394 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,829 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Toshiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toshiko has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Toshiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toshiko, and how old are they?
An estimated 90 Americans named Toshiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,296 people named Toshiko (1,289 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.9 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 Toshiko born?
The states with the most babies named Toshiko are California, Hawaii 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 309 | not ranked | 10.8× |
| Hawaii | 262 | not ranked | 79.5× |
| Washington | 41 | not ranked | 4.7× |
Where Toshiko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Toshiko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1911 it was given 79.5 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 Toshiko 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 866 babies since 1880, Toshiko is the most given (92% 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 Toshiko
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 Toshiko and names like it
- Compare Toshiko and ToshikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sToshiko peaked in 1923.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toshiko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Toshiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Toshiko.
- Names starting with TMost given first.