Yoshio
Yoshio is a boy's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 790th most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as Japanese. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 190 Yoshios are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Yoshio
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,175
- Estimated living today
- 190
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 790th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1910
How old the living Yoshios are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,175 babies given the name since 1910, about 190 are alive — 16 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yoshios
- Yoshio Furukawa (born 1934)Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Kikugawa (1944–2022)Japanese association football player and manager
- Yoshio Okada (1926–2002)Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Kato (born 1957)Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Nishina (1890–1951)Japanese physicist
- Yoshio Kitajima (born 1975)Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Kitagawa (born 1978)Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Koizumi (born 1996)Japanese association football player
People named Yoshio with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yoshio is most common
Across the country Yoshio is recorded 0.27 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Yoshios are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Yoshio peaked:
Yoshio among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Yoshio | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Yoshio 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.