Yoshiaki

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Yoshiaki has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1926, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Yoshiaki, 1929

1 in 365,000

Yoshiaki over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoshiaki: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Yoshiaki means

Yoshiaki is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include righteous, bright, light, clear.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yoshiaki is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jo̞.ɕi.ä.kʲi/ for Yoshiaki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 boys were recorded with the name Yoshiaki between 1918 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1926; its best national rank was #2,434 in 1926.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Yoshiaki?

Yoshiaki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1929: 1 in 365,000; 6 of 2,192,103 births
Among boys only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1929: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 253,243 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshiaki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1929 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 253,243 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshiaki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshiakis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoshiaki was born before 1925 — so the typical Yoshiaki is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 88.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 88.8% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Yoshiaki rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1926 (13)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,434; 1926

Where Yoshiaki is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoshiaki was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 339,604 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 20,000
2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yoshiaki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yoshiaki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,434; 1926
Peak year: 1926; 13 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 1929
All-time count: 89
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yoshiaki

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Yosohn Yosiel Yosmar Yossef Yoshiharu Yoshimi Yoshito Yosgar Yoshiyuki Yosuf Yoshinobu Yostin Yosiah Yosgart Yoshi Yoskar Yoshiro Toshiaki Yoshihiro Yoshinori Yosniel Yoshiki Yosvani Yoshua

Sibling names for Yoshiaki

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Berta Delma Allene Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Pearline

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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