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Yoko

Girl · Japanese

Yoko is a girls' name of Japanese origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Yoko mean?

Japanese

A female given name from Japanese.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Yoko a girl's or a boy's name?

Yoko is a girls' name.

How popular is Yoko in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1981, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1923.

Half of all the girls named Yoko in the US since 1880 were born between 1973 and 1994, the years shaded on the chart below.

1923Busiest: 24 in 19812021
Yoko in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20215#15,246
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20165#16,210
20150–
20145#16,507
20130–
20126#14,956
20110–
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20087#13,827
20077#13,918
20068#12,415
200510#10,123
20040–
20035#15,777
20020–
20019#10,095
20006#13,147
19996#12,681
19986#12,420
19976#12,065
19967#10,562
19958#9,548
199411#7,598
199317#5,413
19929#8,726
19918#9,328
199012#6,861
198912#6,525
19889#7,686
19876#9,820
198611#6,153
198514#5,075
198413#5,221
198314#4,883
198214#4,943
198124#3,436
198011#5,911
19790–
19789#6,384
19777#7,565
197610#5,599
197510#5,514
19748#6,257
197316#3,786
197220#3,177
197112#4,532
19708#5,817
19698#5,455
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19635#6,591
19625#6,577
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19456#4,023
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19356#3,740
19345#4,284
193311#2,539
19328#3,272
193110#2,748
19300–
19290–
19280–
19276#4,284
19260–
19250–
19240–
19235#4,966

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