girls:
3k births since 1917
#3168 (45th percentile)
boys:
42 births since 1971
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1917
#4925 (36th percentile)
The name Tamiko is the #4,925 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,043 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 36.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,168 (44.6% percentile) for all time with 3,001 births since 1917. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1971.
Tamiko first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Tamiko is available in 49 out of the 86 years between 1917 and 2002 (49 years for girls and 5 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tamiko has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tamiko reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 49.3% percentile (ranked #382) with 311 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 311 births per million (ranked 49.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
For boys, Tamiko reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #648) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tamiko".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tamiko. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.3% confident that Tamiko is pronounced as tuh-MEE-koh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-MEE-koh, at 36.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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