Yoko

Where Yoko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ようこ (Yōko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yoko
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #4,967 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #2,540
    11 babies named Yoko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,286.
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.