Yuko
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yuko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 6th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Helpful or superior child’.
- JPJapan1 in 664◐
- USUnited States1 in 111K
- HKHong Kong1 in 22K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.3K ●
- Sources
- 216 ●
- 1 in 111K ◐
across 9 countries
107K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
‘Helpful or superior child’. Yumi @ ‘Bow’ (as in archery); ‘helpful beauty’; also short for any name beginning with Yumi-. Yumiko ° ‘Helpful, beautiful child’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #6 | 108,848 | 93K rec. | — | — | Yuko | 151 |
| US United States | — | 2,996 | 12K rec. | 1 in 111K | 3K | Yuko | 216 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 502 | 425 rec. | — | listed | Yuko | 52 |
| CA Canada | — | 402 | 394 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 37 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 203 | 13 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | 177 | 171 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 20 |
| HK Hong Kong | #826 | 169 | 139 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 12 |
| CN China | — | 163 | 37 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 21 |
| BR Brazil | — | 123 | — | 1 in 1.7M | 129 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 99 | 98 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 80 | 84 rec. | — | — | Yuko | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 69△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 725K | 77 | Yuko | 21 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese121K80%
- English19K12%
- Portuguese2.6K2%
- Spanish2.4K2%
- French1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 121,144 | 80% |
| English | 18,567 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 2,551 | 2% |
| Spanish | 2,375 | 2% |
| French | 1,087 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yuko is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, third-person singular ([[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-wa class|m class_((I))]]) positive degree present of -wako (“he/she is (around there)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, with the head or body bent forward
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In msb, act of bowing the head
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2004 | 27 |
| 2005 | 29 |
| 2006 | 30 |
| 2007 | 28 |
| 2008 | 38 |
| 2009 | 41 |
| 2010 | 41 |
| 2011 | 41 |
| 2012 | 43 |
| 2013 | 45 |
| 2014 | 42 |
| 2015 | 41 |
| 2016 | 42 |
| 2017 | 43 |
| 2018 | 43 |
| 2019 | 43 |
| 2020 | 41 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yūko Tanakab. 1955JPJapanese actress
- Yūko Asanob. 1960JPJapanese actress, talent, singer
- Yūko Daikeb. 1971JPJapanese actress
- Yuko Miyamurab. 1972JPJapanese voice actress, actress and singer
- Yūko Obuchib. 1973JPJapanese politician
- Yūko Nakazawab. 1973JPJapanese female singer and talent (1973-)
- Yūko Nakamurab. 1975JPJapanese actress (1975-)
- Yūko Takeuchib. 1980JPJapanese actress (1980–2020)
- Yūko Ogurab. 1983JPJapanese female variety talent, gravure model and YouTuber (1983-)
- Yuko Arakib. 1993JPJapanese actress and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,617 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 129 | #18,896 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 123 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 109 | #34,803 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105 | #35,645 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 103 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 80 | #6,270 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 77 | #8,707 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 75 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 69 | #21,270 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 60 | #10,686 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 123 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yuko?
- We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Yuko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yuko have the most bearers?
- Yuko is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled yuko.
- How common is Yuko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yuko is the 6th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Yuko a male or female name?
- Yuko is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yuko mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Helpful or superior child’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yuko” — the 6th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.