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Miyoko

The girl's name Miyoko has been in the national records since 1913, with 636 births to its name. Its origin is given as Japanese. In 2025 it ranked 6,116th. About 180 Miyokos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Miyoko

By the numbers

Total US births
636
Estimated living today
180
Median age today
16
Peak year
1924
Best rank
1,279th
Rank in 2025
6,116th
First recorded
1913

How old the living Miyokos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 636 babies given the name since 1913, about 180 are alive — 28 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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

Borrowed from Japanese みよこ.

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

Where Miyoko is most common

  • HI22.3
  • CA0.43
  • WA0.20

Across the country Miyoko is recorded 0.12 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Miyokos are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • HI229
  • CA144
  • WA11

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1924

The most popular girls’ names the year Miyoko peaked:

All the names of 1924

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.