Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tokiko isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tokiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 88
- 0 boys · 88 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 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 8 in 1931. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 233 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.
Tokiko’s family of names
Tokiko has a related form in Toki. In Japanese usage, Tokiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 時子.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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.
People named Tokiko
- Tokiko KatoJapanese singer-songwriter, actress, citizen activist, and former student activist (1943-)
- Taira no TokikoJapanese noble1126–1185
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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