Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Momoko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 150
- 0 boys · 150 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 13 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 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 364 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.
Momoko’s family of names
Momoko has a related form in Momo. In English usage, Momoko was borrowed from the Japanese form ももこ. In Japanese usage, Momoko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 桃子.
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 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Momoko
- Momoko KōchiJapanese actress (1932-1998)
- Momoko TsugunagaJapanese singer and actressborn 1992
- Momoko SakuraJapanese mangaka (1965–2018)
- Momoko TanikawaJapanese association football playerborn 2005
- Momoko KikuchiJapanese singer, idol and actress (1968-)
- Momoko TanakaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Momoko AndoJapanese film directorborn 1982
- Momoko OkazakiJapanese musician (born 2003)
- Momoko KoboriJapanese tennis playerborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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