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Kimiko

Kimiko reached its high-water mark in 1981 at number 1,504, and has been recorded 1,843 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,838th. About 1,300 Kimikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Kimiko

By the numbers

Total US births
1,843
Estimated living today
1,300
Median age today
33
Peak year
1981
Best rank
1,504th
Rank in 2025
6,838th
First recorded
1909

How old the living Kimikos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,843 babies given the name since 1909, about 1,300 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 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 Kimikos

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

Where Kimiko is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Kimiko is most concentrated in Hawaii (81.9×), California (7.0×).

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

Names of 1981

The most popular girls’ names the year Kimiko peaked:

All the names of 1981

Kimiko elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Kimiko 45 4,823rd
England and Wales girls Kimiko 20 3,598th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Kimiko against another name

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.