Michiko
Michiko reached its high-water mark in 1924 at number 1,301, and has been recorded 1,010 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 510 Michikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 43.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Michiko
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,010
- Estimated living today
- 510
- Median age today
- 43
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 1,301st
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Michikos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,010 babies given the name since 1912, about 510 are alive — 50 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1982 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 Michikos
- Empress Michiko (born 1934)wife of Emperor Akihito of Japan
- Michiko Kakutani (born 1955)American writer
- Michiko Neya (born 1965)Japanese voice actress
- Michiko Ishimure (1927–2018)Japanese writer
- Michiko Nomura (born 1938)Japanese actress and voice actress
- Michiko Tanaka (1913–1988)Japanese singer and actress
- Michiko Yokote (born 1953)Japanese screenwriter
People named Michiko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Michiko is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Michiko is most concentrated in Hawaii (105.6×), California (6.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Michiko peaked:
Michiko among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Michiko | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Michiko against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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.