Yoshio

Where Yoshio comes from

The dictionaries list Yoshio as a given name — a male 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. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #790
    73 babies named Yoshio — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1926
    Yoshio Okada born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,353.
  5. 1934
    Yoshio Furukawa born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Yoshio Furukawa · Japanese association football player, born 1934
  • Yoshio Okada · Japanese association football player, 1926–2002
  • Yoshio Kikugawa · Japanese association football player and manager, 1944–2022
  • Yoshio Kato · Japanese association football player, born 1957
  • Yoshio Nishina · Japanese physicist, 1890–1951

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.