Tamiko is a girl's name of Japanese origin meaning “child of the people.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Tamiko at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“child of the people”
About the name Tamiko
Tamiko belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “child of the people” — 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, Tamiko first appears in Social Security records in 1917. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #416 in 1975, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 3,001 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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