Kiyoshi

Where Kiyoshi comes from

Borrowed from Japanese きよし (Kiyoshi).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kiyoshi
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1915
    Kiyoshi Itō born
    Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
  3. 1923
    Peak, #835
    66 babies named Kiyoshi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,293.
  5. 1943
    Kiyoshi Tomizawa born
    Japanese association football player
  6. 1991
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Kiyoshi Tomizawa · Japanese association football player, born 1943
  • Kiyoshi Itō · Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus, 1915–2008
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic, born 1955
  • Kiyoshi Okuma · Japanese association football player and manager, born 1964
  • Kiyoshi Shiga · Japanese physician, 1871–1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.