Yoshi — #8383 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yoshi

The Social Security Administration has registered 212 babies named Yoshi between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yoshi currently holds the #8383 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Yoshi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 91 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yoshi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yoshi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yoshi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yoshi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 212 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.