Yoshika

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Yoshika has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1976, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Yoshika, 1994

1 in 619,000

Yoshika over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoshika: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Yoshika means

Yoshika is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoshika is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 girls were recorded with the name Yoshika between 1975 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1976; its best national rank was #7,288 in 1976.

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.

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How common is Yoshika?

Yoshika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 619,000; 6 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 297,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 429,287 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshika 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 1994 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 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoshika was born before 1982 — so the typical Yoshika is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 43.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 81; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Yoshika 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 1976 (8)
Years since peak: 49; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,288; 1976

Spellings of Yoshika

Yoshika is not the most common spelling — Yoshiko is, with 15.3% against Yoshika's 0.93%.

Yoshiko15.3%1,331
Toshia13.3%1,154
Ishika12.6%1,092
Yashica12.0%1,048
Toshiko9.2%799
Doshia8.8%768
Yashika8.4%734
Rishika6.9%598

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.

Yoshika 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: #7,288; 1976
Peak year: 1976; 8 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 81
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yoshika

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

Yosuani Yostina Aarvika Naomika Shivika Adhvika Ashvika Yosra Yoshino Aarnika Tanvika Arshika Nirvika Aadvika Yoshiye Suleika Pranika Onnika Yuvika Eshika Nishika Sreenika Ruhika Sanvika

Sibling names for Yoshika

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

Chanda Jason Cary Kevin Karie Brandee Sunshine Sommer

For a brother

Andrea Jamey Torrey Federico Giuseppe Abdul Tory Aric

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