Toshio

Where Toshio comes from

Toshio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,885 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #849
    66 babies named Toshio — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1925
    Toshio Iwatani born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,267.
  5. 1955
    Toshio Matsuura born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Toshio Matsuura · Japanese association football player, born 1955
  • Toshio Iwatani · Japanese association football player, 1925–1970
  • Toshio Miyaji · Japanese association football player, died 1999
  • Toshio Takabayashi · Japanese association football player, born 1953
  • Toshio Suzuki · Japanese film producer, born 1948

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.