Yoko
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251
- Peak · girls
- 1933 · 11 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 476since 1923
Yoko over time
Rank among girls' names. Yoko has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
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| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yoko! It came in at #4,967, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Yoko is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more girls named Yoko in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yoko
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 1933 at #2,540 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 69,503 girls born in 1981 were named Yoko (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,172 girls born in 2021 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,540 in 1933, was only 1 in 91,630 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.9% of all girls named Yoko (128) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,627 |
| 1930s | 40 | #2,540 (1933) | #3,318 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,025 (1945) | #4,025 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,456 (1969) | #6,209 |
| 1970s | 100 | #3,177 (1972) | #5,405 |
| 1980s | 128 | #3,436 (1981) | #5,968 |
| 1990s | 90 | #5,419 (1993) | #9,526 |
| 2000s | 57 | #10,102 (2001) | #13,330 |
| 2010s | 21 | #14,962 (2012) | #16,171 |
| 2020s | 5 | #15,251 (2021) | #15,251 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yoko in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 170,207 of them was named Yoko, which outranked 44.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,958Yvonna10
- #5,958Zelma10
- #5,958Zorana10
- #6,385Yoko9
- #6,385Abagail9
- #6,385Adenike9
- #6,385Aditi9
- #6,948Aarin8
- #6,948Abeer8
- #6,948Adel8
Tied with 562 names at #6,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.