Toshiko
Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name.
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Toshiko
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Toshiko is a feminine Japanese given name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Toshiko
American parents first put Toshiko on the record books as a baby girl name in 1911, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1923, when 58 Toshikos were born — ranking #976 that year. About 47% of every Toshiko on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Toshiko last appeared in the published SSA data in 1984, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 799 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Toshiko
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- Toshiko Abe ( 阿部 俊子 ; born 1959) , Japanese politician
- Toshiko Akiyoshi ( 龝吉 敏子 ; born 1929) , Japanese musician (jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader)
- Toshiko D'Elia (1930–2014), American Masters athletics long distance runner
- Toshiko Ezaki ( 江崎 とし子 ) , Japanese singer and songwriter
- Toshiko Fujita ( 藤田 淑子 ; 1950–2018) , Japanese voice actress
- Toshiko Hamayotsu ( 浜四津 敏子 ; born 1945–2020) , Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party
- Toshiko Haruoka ( 春岡 淑子 ; born 1959) , Japanese swimmer
- Toshiko Hayashi ( 林 紀子 ; 1940–2020) , Japanese communist politician
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About the name Toshiko
Toshiko is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1911 and has accumulated 799 births in the dataset. Toshiko's peak popularity came in 1923 when it ranked #976. Use the chart and map above to compare Toshiko's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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