Akiko

Where Akiko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese あきこ (Akiko).
— Wiktionary's entry for Akiko
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,618 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Peak, #1,384
    34 babies named Akiko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,284.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.