Given name
Tamiko
“child of the people; sweet”
Tamiko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “child of the people; sweet.”
Original Japanese妥実子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “child of the people; sweet.”
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 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tamiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,043
- 42 boys · 3,001 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 503 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 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 486 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,624 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.
Tamiko’s family of names
Tamiko has a related form in Tamika. Tamiko has a related form in Tomika. Tamiko has a related form in Tamica.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 23
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tamiko
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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