Eiko is a girl's name of Japanese origin meaning “child.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Eiko at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“child”
Also spelled
Eikou, Eikoh
About the name Eiko
Eiko belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “child” — is the sense carried by its Japanese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Eikou, Eikoh.
In the United States, Eiko first appears in Social Security records in 1915. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2145 in 1921, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 195 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.