Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 195
- 0 boys · 195 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,187 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.
Eiko’s family of names
In German usage, Eiko has a related form in EIKE. In Japanese usage, Eiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 恵以子. In Japanese usage, Eiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 恵似子.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 江威子original script · Japanese
- 永依子original script · Japanese
- 映子original script · Japanese
- 恵以子original script · Japanese
- 栄子original script · Japanese
- 恵似子original script · Japanese
- 英子original script · Japanese
- Eykolikely spelling
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eiko
- Eiko IshiokaJapanese art director and designer (1938-2012)
- Eiko KadonoJapanese writerborn 1935
- Eiko MatsudaJapanese actress1952–2011
- Eiko YamadaJapanese actress and voice actressborn 1953
- Eiko Koikeactressborn 1980
- Eiko ShimamiyaJapanese singer-songwriter and producerborn 1965
- Eiko MasuyamaJapanese voice actress (1936-2024)
- Eiko NakayamaJapanese skeleton racerborn 1970
- Eiko YamazawaJapanese photographer (1899–1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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