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Yoshimi

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Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Yoshimi has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1917, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% boys, 32% girls all-time.

Babies named Yoshimi, 1929

1 in 438,000

Yoshimi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yoshimi over time

In 1989, Yoshimi went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19151989

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yoshimi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Yoshimi means

Yoshimi 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 good, virtuous, respectable, beautiful.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yoshimi is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jo̞.ɕi.mi/ for Yoshimi.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoshimi is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 boys were recorded with the name Yoshimi between 1917 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,952 in 1917.

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Yoshimi between 1915 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1923; its best national rank was #4,261 in 1915.

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 Yoshimi?

Yoshimi 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 438,000
5 of 2,192,103 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1929
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
303,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshimi 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 303,891 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshimi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshimis were born

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

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
73.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 73.8% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Yoshimi 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (9)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,952
1917

Spellings of Yoshimi

Yoshimi is not the most common spelling — Yoshio is, with 94.8% against Yoshimi's 5.2%.

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 Yoshimi is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Yoshimi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 25,741 across all states with data.

44 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 25,000

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. Yoshimi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Yoshimi is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Yoshimi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 1,647,465 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  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. Yoshimi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yoshimi around the world

Where Yoshimi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1997–1997
    #3,950
    in 1997

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yoshimi 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
#2,952
1917
Peak year
1917
9 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,261
1915
Peak year
1923
7 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Yoshimi

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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