Yoshitaka

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Yoshitaka has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1922, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Yoshitaka, 1925

1 in 467,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoshitaka: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Yoshitaka means

Yoshitaka is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoshitaka is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Yoshitaka between 1922 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,855 in 1925.

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 Yoshitaka?

Yoshitaka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925: 1 in 467,000; 5 of 2,333,232 births
Among boys only: 1 in 223,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1925: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 323,456 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshitaka 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 1925 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 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshitaka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshitakas were born

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

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% 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 — 100.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Yoshitaka 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 1922 (5)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,855; 1925

Where Yoshitaka is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoshitaka was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 113,262 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 100,000

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

Yoshitaka 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: #4,855; 1925
Peak year: 1922; 5 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1925
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yoshitaka

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

Yoshikazu Yoshihiro Yoshinori Yoshinobu Yoshiyuki Yoshihiko Yoshiyahu Yoshiyah Yosgarth Yoshiharu Yosimar Yoshikatsu Yoshiki Yosvani Yosiyah Yosniel Yoshiro Yoshiaki Yosias Yosgard Yosvany Yoshmel Yosbel Yosuf

Sibling names for Yoshitaka

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

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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