Yumiko

Where Yumiko comes from

The dictionaries list Yumiko 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. 1969
    First appearance
    #5,057 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #4,942
    13 babies named Yumiko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,750.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yumiko 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.