Entry № 11804 · Japanese origin

Yoko Yoko — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-koh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Ocean child (Yoko Ono, avant-garde artist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "ocean child (yoko ono, avant-garde artist)".

Yoko Ono (born 1933) is the Japanese-American multimedia artist, musician, and peace activist — pioneer of conceptual art alongside George Maciunas and Fluxus, and wife of John Lennon from 1969 until his murder in 1980. Her 1964 Cut Piece — in which she sat motionless on stage while audience members cut away her clothing — is among the works of feminist performance art.

Subject of the 2024 documentary Yoko.

Ocean child. Pioneering avant-garde artist; her Cut Piece is to feminist performance art.

The name in its native script.

洋子
Transliteration
Yōko
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.koʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yoko stands.

Yoko 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.

Yokos before her.

Real people
Yoko Ono
Japanese-American artist.
born 1933
In fiction
Yoko
Beatles' The Ballad of John and Yoko.
1969

Names connected to Yoko.

The number behind Yoko.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yoko reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.