Yoshio

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Japanese

Meaning

Yoshio is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.

From Wikipedia

Yoshio first appears in the data in 1910 and has been recorded in 57 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1921 with 73 babies (rank #799 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Yoshio

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Yoshio yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

1,175
Total babies (all years)
57
Years in the data
73
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19105#1,838
19115#1,997
191212#1,526
191322#1,111
191432#1,002
191544#951
191649#916
191761#821
191866#808
191953#926
192054#946
192173#799
192256#940
192356#923
192457#936
192553#932
192646#1,033
192739#1,162
192829#1,381
192938#1,137
193032#1,282
193118#1,769
193226#1,386
193315#1,904
193411#2,390
193512#2,244
19366#3,545
193710#2,477
19395#3,964
19406#3,458
19425#4,042
19817#5,464
198212#3,688
19835#7,330
19846#6,305
198513#3,594
19868#5,327
19878#5,449
19886#7,252
19896#7,893
19908#6,402
19919#5,929
19926#8,419
19938#6,798
19958#6,982
19975#10,789
19996#9,887
20005#12,087
20015#12,271
20046#11,322
20058#9,088
20065#13,973
20076#12,324
20097#10,947
20185#14,031
20195#14,059
20216#12,090