Fumiko

Where Fumiko comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Fumiko.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Fumiko through the years
  1. 1903
    Fumiko Hayashi born
    Japanese writer
  2. 1910
    First appearance
    #2,140 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1923
    Peak, #953
    60 babies named Fumiko, the most in any year.
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,961.
  5. 1974
    Fumiko Orikasa born
    Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Fumiko Hayashi · Japanese writer, 1903–1951
  • Fumiko Orikasa · Japanese actress, voice actress and singer, born 1974
  • Fumiko Kaneko · Japanese activist, 1903–1926
  • Fumiko Yonezawa · Japanese theoretical physicist, 1938–2019
  • Fumiko Hayashi · Japanese politician, born 1946

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.