Names / Girl names
Yoko
Current rank
—
outside the top 1,000
All-time peak
#2,682
in 1933
First recorded
1923
in U.S. data
Children named
476
since 1923
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #2,682 in 1933 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
(YOH-koh): Japanese, can mean sunlight-child depending on kanji. Very familiar internationally, but meaning is character-dependent. It first shows up in American naming data in 1923. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. Roughly 476 people have been given the name to date — a true rarity.