Given name

Takeko

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

Original Japaneseたけこ

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Takeko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese たけこ (Takeko).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Takeko through the years

Babies since 1880
43
0 boys · 43 girls
Most popular year
1924
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246819401960198020002025Highest share 19240.0
Takeko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1924–2025, 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 6 in 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 139 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.

Takeko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Takeko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of たけこ. In English usage, Takeko was borrowed from the Japanese form たけこ.

Walk Takeko’s family in the name graph

Takekoたけこ

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

People named Takeko

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