Yoko is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Yoko has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Yoko. That means that a girl named Yoko is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yoko.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Yoko. Girls named Yoko have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,273 Yoko ranked higher than ever in 1933. By comparison, there have been 90 years in which the first name Yoko has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Yoko only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yoko was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Yoko is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 51 Americans in total bear this name. And these 51 women are located in only three states: California, Hawaii and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Yoko and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Yoko in relation to it’s female population is Hawaii. And yet even there, only one in 88,259 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Yoko.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Yoko is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yoko and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yoko, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Orange
Koala
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yoko
Yoko
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
O
K
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
O
K
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yoko sounds like this:
