Yoshio
Yoshio was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 1,175 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoshio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yoshio mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yoshio is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yoshio?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,090, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1921, the peak
Yoshio peaked in 1921, when 73 boys were given it, #799 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #12,090 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 5 | #14,062 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #14,034 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,942 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,319 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,968 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,083 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,317 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #12,265 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #12,080 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #9,880 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,782 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,975 | 4.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,795 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,411 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,922 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,395 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,885 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,247 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,442 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,320 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,592 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,303 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,326 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,687 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,462 | 3.9 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,041 | 3.6 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,457 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,963 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,477 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,544 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,244 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,390 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,904 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,386 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,769 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 32 | #1,282 | 29.2 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,137 | 35.3 |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,381 | 26.2 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,162 | 34.6 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,033 | 41.4 |
| 1925 | 53 | #932 | 47.5 |
| 1924 | 57 | #936 | 50.3 |
| 1923 | 56 | #923 | 51.1 |
| 1922 | 56 | #940 | 51.5 |
| 1921 | 73 | #799 | 66.3 |
| 1920 | 54 | #946 | 50.7 |
| 1919 | 53 | #926 | 54.1 |
| 1918 | 66 | #808 | 65.1 |
| 1917 | 61 | #821 | 65.9 |
| 1916 | 49 | #916 | 55.1 |
| 1915 | 44 | #951 | 51.9 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,002 | 48.9 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,111 | 42.9 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,525 | 27.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,996 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,837 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoshio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoshio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoshio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoshio, and how old are they?
An estimated 190 Americans named Yoshio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 25 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 618 people named Yoshio (4 women and girls, 614 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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).
Where are babies named Yoshio born?
The states with the most babies named Yoshio are Hawaii, California and Washington, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 516 | not ranked | 108.9× |
| California | 347 | not ranked | 6.3× |
| Washington | 17 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yoshio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yoshio is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 108.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yoshio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,088 babies since 1880, Yoshio is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 none of their 44 babies recorded by SSA was a Yoshio (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Yoshio
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 Yoshio and names like it
- Compare Yoshio and YoshuaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sYoshio peaked in 1921.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoshio since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Yoshio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Yoshio.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yoshio alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.