Sumiko
Sumiko reached its high-water mark in 1927 at number 1,261, and has been recorded 618 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2011. About 150 Sumikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sumiko
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 618
- Estimated living today
- 150
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 1,261st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Sumikos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 618 babies given the name since 1912, about 150 are alive — 23 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 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 Sumikos
- Sumiko Kurishima (1902–1987)Japanese actress
People named Sumiko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sumiko is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sumiko is most concentrated in Hawaii (174.6×), California (4.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1927
The most popular girls’ names the year Sumiko peaked:
Related names
Sumiko 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.