# Yuko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yuko/  
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 | 162 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 162 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ゆうこ (Yūko), 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | 10,386 |
| 1981 | 5 | 12,187 |
| 1982 | 5 | 12,317 |
| 1983 | 9 | 7,304 |
| 1984 | 9 | 7,395 |
| 1985 | 6 | 10,671 |
| 1986 | 13 | 5,756 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,870 |
| 1989 | 5 | 14,533 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,499 |
| 1992 | 9 | 9,479 |
| 1993 | 6 | 13,427 |
| 1998 | 6 | 14,089 |
| 2005 | 5 | 19,143 |
| 2007 | 5 | 20,507 |

## People named Yuko

- Yuko Sano, Female Japanese volleyball player
- Yuko Kishida, First Lady of Japan from 2021 to 2024

## 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.