Kiyoko

Where Kiyoko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese きよこ (Kiyoko).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kiyoko
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,144 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #969
    58 babies named Kiyoko — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,637.
  4. 1936
    Kiyoko Ono born
    Japanese gymnast
  5. 1945
    Kiyoko Murata born
    Japanese writer, essayist and novelist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Kiyoko Ono · Japanese gymnast, 1936–2021
  • Kiyoko Murata · Japanese writer, essayist and novelist, born 1945
  • Kiyoko Fukuda · First Lady of Japan, born 1944
  • Kiyoko Arai · Japanese manga artist
  • Kiyoko Shibuya · Japanese visual effects director, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.