Miyako
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmiˌəˌkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miyako is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: From Japanese 宮古島 (miyako-jima).
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Japanese 宮古島 (miyako-jima).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Miyako is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies a few hundred kilometres east of Taipei, Taiwan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Miyako (an island of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Miyako (language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ishiuchi Miyakob. 1947JPJapanese photographer (born 1947)
- Miyako Sudab. 1948JPJapanese economist
- Miyako Chakib. 1950JPJapanese singer
- Miyako Yamaguchib. 1952JPJapanese actress
- Miyako Itōb. 1962JPJapanese voice actress
- Miyako Endōb. 1965JPJapanese voice actress
- Miyako Yoshidab. 1965JPJapanese ballet dancer and ballet instructor (1965-)
- Miyako Tanakab. 1967JPOlympic synchronized swimmer
- Miyako Miyazakib. 1978JPJapanese model
- Miyakob. 2007JPJapanese-American actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 512 | #20,056 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 102 | #22,039 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 82 | #39,730 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 75 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 71 | #50,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 25 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 23 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,365 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,863 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 9 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miyako mean, and where does it come from?
- From Japanese 宮古島 (miyako-jima). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Miyako?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmiˌəˌkoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Miyako a male or female name?
- Miyako is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Miyako have the most bearers?
- Miyako is most frequently recorded in Japan.
What do you want to know about Miyako?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miyakoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miyako”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.