Yoshiko
Yoshiko is a girl's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 793rd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2007. About 210 Yoshikos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yoshiko
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,331
- Estimated living today
- 210
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 793rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Yoshikos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,331 babies given the name since 1906, about 210 are alive — 16 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Borrowed from Japanese 美子, 芳子.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yoshikos
- Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920–2014)Japanese singer and actress
- Yoshiko Kawashima (1907–1948)Japanese spy in China
- Yoshiko Kuga (1931–2024)Japanese actress
- Nakayama Yoshiko (1836–1907)Japanese concubine
- Yoshiko Tanaka (1956–2011)Japanese singer and actress
- Yoshiko Matsumura (born 1941)Japanese volleyball player
- Yoshiko Sakakibara (born 1956)Japanese voice actress
- Yoshiko Okada (1902–1992)Japanese and Soviet actress, announcer, and left-wing theater performer
People named Yoshiko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yoshiko is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yoshiko is most concentrated in Hawaii (171.6×), California (4.3×), Washington (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Yoshiko peaked:
Related names
Yoshiko against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.