Given name
Kumiko
“a child who is forever beautiful”
Kumiko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “a child who is forever beautiful.”
Original Japanese駒実子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a child who is forever beautiful.”
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 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kumiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 78
- 0 boys · 78 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 8 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 5 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,244 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.
Kumiko’s family of names
Kumiko has a related form in Kumeeko. Kumiko has a related form in Kumyko. In Filipino usage, Kumiko was borrowed from the Japanese form くみこ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 19
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 紅美子original script · Japanese
- 久美子original script · Japanese
- 駒実子original script · Japanese
- 高実子original script · Japanese
- 句実子original script · Japanese
- 倶実子original script · Japanese
- 紅実子original script · Japanese
- 公実子original script · Japanese
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- 具実子original script · Japanese
- 来実子original script · Japanese
- 孔実子original script · Japanese
- 久実子original script · Japanese
- 恭実子original script · Japanese
- 功実子original script · Japanese
- 丘実子original script · Japanese
- 玖実子original script · Japanese
- 九実子original script · Japanese
- 弘実子original script · Japanese
- 巧実子original script · Japanese
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kumiko
- Kumiko OkaeJapanese actress, voice actress and television presenter (1956-2020)
- Kumiko WatanabeJapanese actress and voice actressborn 1965
- Kumiko AsoJapanese actressborn 1978
- Kumiko GotoJapanese model, talent, actressborn 1974
- Kumiko NishiharaJapanese voice actressborn 1965
- Kumiko ŌsugiJapanese singer and voice actor (1951-)
- Kumiko Ogurabadminton playerborn 1983
- Kumiko OkamotoJapanese tennis player (1965-)
- Kumiko HigaJapanese voice actressborn 1978
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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