Miko

Where Miko comes from

The dictionaries list Miko as a given name — a transliteration of a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,907 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2003
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2023
    Peak, #1,970
    78 babies named Miko — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A transliteration of a female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Miko hasn't yet.

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.