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Fumiko

About 721 American babies have been named Fumiko since 1910, most of them around 1923. It has not appeared in the national data since 1986. About 40 Fumikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 90.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Fumiko

By the numbers

Total US births
721
Estimated living today
40
Median age today
90
Peak year
1923
Best rank
953rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1910

How old the living Fumikos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 721 babies given the name since 1910, about 40 are alive — 5 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1935 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Fumikos

People named Fumiko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Fumiko is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Fumiko is most concentrated in Hawaii (172.4×), California (4.2×), Washington (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1923

The most popular girls’ names the year Fumiko peaked:

All the names of 1923

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.