Given name

Chiyoko

Chiyoko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.

Original Japanese千代子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Chiyoko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese ちよこ (Chiyoko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1909. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Chiyoko through the years

Babies since 1880
544
0 boys · 544 girls
Most popular year
1923
41 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Chiyoko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1909–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 41 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 399 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Chiyoko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Chiyoko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ちよこ. In English usage, Chiyoko was borrowed from the Japanese form ちよこ. In Japanese usage, Chiyoko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 智代子.

Walk Chiyoko’s family in the name graph

Chiyokoちよこ知世子智代子千代子

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 4

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Chiyoko

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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