Teruko
Meaning
shining child
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Teruko has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
377 people · the #16,264 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 78
Among people named Teruko living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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