# Yoko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yoko/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Japanese |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 476 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 476 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ようこ (Yōko), a female given name with many variant kanji spellings.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | 14,084 |
| 1999 | 6 | 14,379 |
| 2000 | 6 | 14,997 |
| 2001 | 9 | 11,001 |
| 2003 | 5 | 18,374 |
| 2005 | 10 | 10,903 |
| 2006 | 8 | 13,571 |
| 2007 | 7 | 15,431 |
| 2008 | 7 | 15,358 |
| 2009 | 5 | 20,117 |
| 2010 | 5 | 19,754 |
| 2012 | 6 | 16,786 |
| 2014 | 5 | 19,134 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,782 |
| 2021 | 5 | 17,577 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

## People named Yoko

- Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress (1928-1999)
- Yōko Tsukasa, actress
- Yoko Alender, Estonian architect and politician (born 1979)
- Yoko Aki, actress, novelist
- Yoko Zetterlund, American volleyball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.