Toshiko

Where Toshiko comes from

The dictionaries list Toshiko as a given name — 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. 1911
    First appearance
    #2,463 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1919
    Peak, #967
    54 babies named Toshiko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,619.
  4. 1929
    Toshiko Akiyoshi born
    Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master
  5. 1950
    Toshiko Fujita born
    Japanese actress and voice actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi · Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master, born 1929
  • Toshiko Fujita · Japanese actress and voice actress, 1950–2018
  • Toshiko Yuasa · Japanese physicist, 1909–1980
  • Toshiko Higashikuni · daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, 1896–1978
  • Toshiko Kishida · Japanese feminist & teacher, 1864–1901

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.