Seiko is a girl's name of Japanese origin meaning “depends on the kanji used to write it.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Seiko at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“depends on the kanji used to write it”
About the name Seiko
Seiko belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “depends on the kanji used to write it” — is the sense carried by its Japanese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Seiko first appears in Social Security records in 1919. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5452 in 1919, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 11 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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