Taeko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təɛkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taeko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 545K
- ISIceland≈1 in 129K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taeko counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #648 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Taeko | 110 |
| US United States | — | 610 | 1 in 545K | 607 | Taeko | 110 |
| BR Brazil | — | 261 | 1 in 811K | 340 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 793K | — | Taeko | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Taeko | 15 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Taeko | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Taeko | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 129K | listed | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the is-skra-nofn register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taeko Konob. 1926JPJapanese writer (1926–2015)
- Taeko Nakanishib. 1931JPJapanese voice actress
- Taeko Tomiokab. 1935JPJapanese novelist, screenwriter, poet and writer (1935–2023)
- Taeko Takahashib. 1944JPJapanese local politician
- Taeko Hattorib. 1949JPJapanese actress
- Taeko Ōnukib. 1953JPJapanese singer-songwriter (1953-)
- Taeko Watanabeb. 1960JPJapanese mangaka
- Taeko Kawatab. 1965JPJapanese voice actress
- Taeko Kawasumib. 1972JPJapanese association football player
- Taeko Ishikawab. 1975JPOlympic softball player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 607 | #17,856 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 340 | #9,751 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 318 | #19,048 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 261 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 257 | #21,036 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 240 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 181 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 64 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 21 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Taeko?
- A machine transcription gives /təɛkoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Taeko a male or female name?
- Taeko is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Taeko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Taeko in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taeko.
- How common is the name Taeko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 610 people named Taeko in 2020, about 1 in 545 thousand residents.
- How common is Taeko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Taeko is the 648th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Taeko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taekoThe 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, “Taeko” — the 648th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.