Given name
Tomiko
“child of wealth”
Tomiko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “child of wealth.”
Original Japanese都美子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “child of wealth.”
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
Tomiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 925
- 7 boys · 918 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 61 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 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 60 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,027 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.
Tomiko’s family of names
Tomiko has a related form in Tamiko. Tomiko has a related form in Tomyko. In Japanese usage, Tomiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of とみこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tomiko
- Tomiko ItookaJapanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)
- Hino TomikoProeminent figure during the Ōnin war1440–1496
- Tomiko SuzukiJapanese voice actress (1956-2003)
- Tomiko MiyaoJapanese novelist and writer (1926–2014)
- Tomi KōraJapanese politician1896–1993
- Tomiko OkazakiJapanese politician (1944-2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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