Boy

Miko

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,743
47 boys
2015
#3,560
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Miko: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,981 in 2023.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,981 in 2023; #2,743 in 2025. About 67% of babies named Miko in 2025 were boys.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,743 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,981.

Babies in 2025
70
Since 1880
1,593
Years on record
59

Babies named Miko, every year since 1880

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Boys Girls

Miko: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,981 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 78 (2023).

About the name Miko

In 2025, 47 US boys were named Miko, making it the 2,743rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 307 places from #2,436 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 57 boys named Miko in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,981, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #3,560 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

In 2025, 23 US girls were named Miko, making it the 5,506th most common girls’ name of the year, up 7,519 places from #13,025 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 7 girls named Miko in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,524, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 30. For comparison, it was #10,640 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Miko in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 6 babies. In all, 1,593 US babies have been given the name, 38% of them girls and 62% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 444 babies named Miko.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 508 US boys were named Miko; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Miko ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,938 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikael (6,239 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Miyoko, Mieko and Meko are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Miyoko (636), Mieko (321), Meko (289), Meiko (247), Meeko (183), Miyako (178), Micco (167), Mico (162), Miku (136), Miyeko (132), Meco (86), Mekko (35).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Miko in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Miko by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
California8#1,938#2,804
Texas5#2,831—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202523#5,50647#2,743
20247#13,02557#2,436
202319#6,33178#1,981
202219#6,39175#2,033
202111#9,36457#2,401
202011#9,35540#2,962
201911#9,54146#2,752
201813#8,46043#2,830
201711#9,74430#3,643
201613#8,71835#3,272
201510#10,64031#3,560
201411#9,96030#3,589
201317#7,28527#3,822
201214#8,49918#5,182
201110#10,93321#4,611
20109#11,94925#4,073
20096#16,59318#5,244
20088#13,41518#5,191
20076#16,91118#5,144
200613#9,10817#5,234
20058#12,63415#5,481
20045#17,90913#6,031
20038#12,02923#3,807
200211#9,27211#6,381
20018#11,7019#7,312
2000——17#4,506
19996#13,8508#7,635
19989#9,84113#5,087
19978#10,47113#4,858
19967#11,3837#7,703
19956#12,80714#4,436
19946#12,86221#3,298
19939#9,2488#6,632
199210#8,51512#4,767
19918#9,93015#3,955
199010#8,2977#6,917
19899#8,50310#5,060
198810#7,493——
19869#7,530——
19858#8,043——
198410#6,606——
19837#8,6555#6,958
198210#6,6916#6,142
198111#6,170——
19806#9,895——
197911#6,019——
197812#5,430——
19775#10,664——
19769#6,402——
197514#4,5027#4,634
197416#3,970——
1973——5#5,615
197219#3,3625#5,498
197130#2,5245#5,399
197013#4,407——
196914#3,909——
19685#7,787——
196718#3,035——
19636#6,358——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).