Yoshio
Yoshio is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Yoshio
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Yoshio is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Yoshio
Yoshio first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1910, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1921: 73 births, good for #790 nationwide. About 43% of every Yoshio on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Yoshio last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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About the name Yoshio
Yoshio is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1910 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Yoshio's peak popularity came in 1921 when it ranked #790. Use the chart and map above to compare Yoshio's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.