Given name

Tsuneko

Tsuneko is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese典子

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tsuneko comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Tsuneko through the years

Babies since 1880
43
0 boys · 43 girls
Most popular year
1930
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Tsuneko in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1914–2025, 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 7 in 1930. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 118 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.

Tsuneko’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Tsuneko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of つねこ. In Japanese usage, Tsuneko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 典子. In Japanese usage, Tsuneko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 恒子.

Walk Tsuneko’s family in the name graph

Tsuneko典子つねこ恒子

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 3

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

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