Given name & surname
Keiko
“a respectful and wellbehaved child”
Keiko is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “a respectful and wellbehaved child.”
Original Japanese景行
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a respectful and wellbehaved child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Keiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,184
- 14 boys · 1,170 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #6,689 for girls · #10,206 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +25%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 17 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 6,689 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 11.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 31 in 1995. It also appeared in 7 birth records for boys in 2025. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,672 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.
Keiko’s family of names
Keiko has a related form in Kiko. Keiko has a related form in Kaeko. Keiko has a related form in Kaiko.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Keiko
- Keiko Fujimori67th President of Peruborn 1975
- Keiko SaitoJapanese association football playerborn 1965
- Keiko KitagawaJapanese actressborn 1986
- Keiko AgenaAmerican actressborn 1973
- Keiko AbeJapanese composer and marimba playerborn 1937
- Keiko MatsuiJapanese jazz pianist (1961-)
- Keiko Kishiactress, writer (1932-2026)
- Keiko AwajiJapanese actor (1933–2014)
- Keiko Fukudamartial artist (1913-2013)
Characters named Keiko: Keiko O'Brien (television character played by Rosalind Chao from Star Trek).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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