Given name
Tokio
Tokio is a given name from Japanese. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Original Japanese十紀雄
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tokio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 55
- 55 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 9 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 boys is 8 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1920.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tokio’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Tokio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ときお. In Japanese usage, Tokio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 十紀雄. In Japanese usage, Tokio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 時男.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tokio
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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