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Tamiko

Tamiko reached its high-water mark in 1975 at number 415, and has been recorded 3,043 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2002. About 2,800 Tamikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tamiko boys named Tamiko

By the numbers

Total US births
3,043
Estimated living today
2,800
Median age today
50
Peak year
1975
Best rank
415th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1917
Girls / boys
3,001 / 42

How old the living Tamikos are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,043 babies given the name since 1917, about 2,800 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 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.

Where Tamiko is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tamiko is most concentrated in Georgia (3.4×), Michigan (2.8×), the District of Columbia (2.6×), Mississippi (2.6×).

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

Names of 1975

The most popular girls’ names the year Tamiko peaked:

All the names of 1975

Related names

Tamiko 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.