Yoshimi

Where Yoshimi comes from

The dictionaries list Yoshimi as a given name — a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    Debut at its peak, #2,732
    #2,732 among boys with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1919
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1989
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yoshimi hasn't yet.

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.