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Yoshie

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Yoshie has been given to 395 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1924, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Yoshie, 1940

1 in 384,000

Yoshie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoshie: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Yoshie means

Yoshie 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 fragrant, virtuous, beautiful, reason, case, favour, benefit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yoshie is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jo̞.ɕi.e̞/ for Yoshie.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoshie is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 395 girls were recorded with the name Yoshie between 1914 and 1940. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,326 in 1924.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yoshie?

Yoshie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1940
1 in 384,000
6 of 2,302,666 births
Among girls only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1940
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,016 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1940 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 266,016 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoshie was born before 1923 — so the typical Yoshie is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
58.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1920s — 58.7% of all recorded uses (232).

Is Yoshie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (38)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,326
1924

Spellings of Yoshie

Yoshie is not the most common spelling — Sophie is, with 43.9% against Yoshie's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yoshie is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoshie was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,493 girls, against 1 in 51,323 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

067 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,493
  2. 2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Yoshie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yoshie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,326
1924
Peak year
1924
38 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1940
All-time count
395
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yoshie

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

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Sibling names for Yoshie

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

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