Given name

Ikuko

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

Original Japanese幾子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Ikuko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese いくこ (Ikuko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Ikuko through the years

Babies since 1880
10
0 boys · 10 girls
Most popular year
1921
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
024619401960198020002025Highest share 19230.0
Ikuko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1921–2025, 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 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 557 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.

Ikuko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Ikuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of いくこ. In English usage, Ikuko was borrowed from the Japanese form いくこ. In Japanese usage, Ikuko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 依久子.

Walk Ikuko’s family in the name graph

Ikuko依久子いくこ郁子幾子征子行子衣玖子伊久子以倶子

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.

People named Ikuko

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

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