Nobuko
Nobuko is a girl's name that peaked in 1924, when it was the 1,440th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1941. About 20 Nobukos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 91.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nobuko
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 371
- Estimated living today
- 20
- Median age today
- 91
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 1,440th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Nobukos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 371 babies given the name since 1915, about 20 are alive — 6 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1934 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.
Notable Nobukos
- Nobuko Yoshiya (1896–1973)Japanese writer
- Princess Nobuko, Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (born 1955)Japanese princess; widow of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa
- Nobuko Imai (born 1943)Japanese violist and professor
- Nobuko Otowa (1924–1994)Japanese actress
- Princess Nobuko Asaka (1891–1933)Japanese princess
- Nobuko Miyamoto (born 1945)Japanese actress
- Nobuko Takagi (born 1946)Japanese novelist
People named Nobuko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nobuko is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nobuko is most concentrated in Hawaii (185.7×), California (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular girls’ names the year Nobuko peaked:
Related names
Nobuko 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.