Yoko
Only 34 women in Poland carry this Japanese name, so most Poles have never met one. It means "ocean child".
Yoko Pronunciation
Yoko is pronounced ih-O-ko (/ɨˈɔkɔ/).
What Yoko means
Where Yoko comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yoko reached Poland from Japan, and its meaning sits in the characters used to write it. One common spelling, 洋子, joins a sign for the open sea with a sign for child. Read together, they give the sense the name carries here: ocean child, dziecko oceanu.
The origin is filed under other, outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish registers. That places Yoko among the borrowed names, chosen for sound and for the Japanese connection rather than a saint's day.
The best known bearer is Yoko Ono, the artist and musician born in Tokyo in 1933. Her work in performance and sound made the name familiar far past Japan. A teacher reading a Polish class register might pause at Yoko before the next surname. It is short. Two syllables, four letters, no diminutive to soften or stretch it.
No Polish variant has grown up around it. The name stays as it arrived, a borrowed word meaning ocean child.
How many people are named Yoko
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Yoko. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6931 among female names.
Yoko as a middle name
Yoko is a first name for 34 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2676th, between Yanet (9) and Yulia (9).
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#2674 Xena9
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#2675 Yanet9
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#2676 Yoko9
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#2677 Yulia9
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#2678 Zarina9