Given name
Sumiko
“child of goodness”
Sumiko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “child of goodness.”
Original Japanese純子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “child of goodness.”
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 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sumiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 618
- 0 boys · 618 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 39 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 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 39 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 990 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.
Sumiko’s family of names
In English usage, Sumiko was borrowed from the Japanese form すみこ. In Japanese usage, Sumiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of すみ子. In Japanese usage, Sumiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 壽実子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 28
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 純子original script · Japanese
- 澄子original script · Japanese
- 彗美子original script · Japanese
- 好實子original script · Japanese
- 好実子original script · Japanese
- 澄實子original script · Japanese
- 澄実子original script · Japanese
- 朱實子original script · Japanese
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- 朱実子original script · Japanese
- 秀實子original script · Japanese
- 秀実子original script · Japanese
- 洲實子original script · Japanese
- 洲実子original script · Japanese
- 寸實子original script · Japanese
- 寸実子original script · Japanese
- 崇實子original script · Japanese
- 崇実子original script · Japanese
- 純實子original script · Japanese
- 純実子original script · Japanese
- 壽實子original script · Japanese
- 寿実子original script · Japanese
- 壽実子original script · Japanese
- 須實子original script · Japanese
- 須実子original script · Japanese
- 壽美子original script · Japanese
- 寿美子original script · Japanese
- すみ子original script · Japanese
- Sumicolikely spelling
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Sumiko
- Sumiko KurishimaJapanese actress (1902–1987)
- Sumiko FujiJapanese actressborn 1945
- Princess SumikoJapanese princess; daughter of Emperor Ninkō; head of the Katsura-no-miya from 1863 until 18811829–1881
- Sumiko ShirakawaJapanese voice actress (1935–2015)
- Sumiko IwaoJapanese psychologist (1935-2018)
- Sumiko WatanabeJapanese sprinter1916–2010
- Sumiko YokoyamaJapanese cross-country skierborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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