Given name
Yuko
Yuko is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Portuguese.
Original Japaneseゆうこ
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yuko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 162
- 0 boys · 162 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 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 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,011 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.
Yuko’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Yuko was borrowed from the Japanese form ゆうこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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