Yoshi
Yoshi was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,650 among boys’ names; 310 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoshi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yoshi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yoshi is “a male given name from Japanese.”
From 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings.
/ˈjəʊʃi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yoshi?
#10,650 among boys’ names, 2025
Yoshi rose from #13,983 in 2015 to #10,650 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.1 per million.
19 babies in 2022, the peak
Yoshi peaked in 2022, when 19 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,464 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,650 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,965 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 15 | #6,203 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,677 | 14 | #6,464 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,576 | 13 | #6,670 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #11,971 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 12 | #7,150 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 9 | #8,791 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,831 | 8 | #9,660 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,780 | 6 | #12,133 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 5 | #13,983 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #10,676 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #7,028 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 17 | #5,423 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 9 | #8,767 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,233 | 10 | #8,290 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 12 | #7,167 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,763 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,130 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,316 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,737 | 5 | #12,713 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 7 | #9,212 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #12,079 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,400 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,232 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,426 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,052 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,892 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,774 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,856 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,240 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,154 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,606 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Yoshi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 310 Americans recorded as Yoshi, 29% are girls and 71% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Yoshi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoshi, and how old are they?
An estimated 268 Americans named Yoshi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 743 people named Yoshi (295 women and girls, 448 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,683 babies since 1880, Yoshi is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 93 babies (7.5%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yoshi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yoshi and names like it
- Compare Yoshi and YoshioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYoshi peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoshi since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Yoshi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Yoshi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yoshi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.