Entry № 10299 · Japanese origin

Tamiko Tamiko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-MEE-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Child of the people (Japanese heritage)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "child of the people (japanese heritage)".

Tamiko is from the Japanese tami (民 — people) + ko (子 — child). Tamiko Cheri Sage — modern American figure. Tamiko Yamashita — Japanese-American librarian. Tamiko Hage — German-Japanese filmmaker.

Child of the people.

The name in its native script.

民子
Transliteration
Tamiko
Pronunciation
/ tɑːˈmiː.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tamiko stands.

Tamiko does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tamikos before her.

Real people
Tamiko Bolton
American businesswoman + George Soros's wife.
modern
In fiction
Tamiko
1962 John Sturges film.
1962

Names connected to Tamiko.

The number behind Tamiko.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tamiko reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.