Yoshiyuki

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Yoshiyuki has been given to 36 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 1924, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Yoshiyuki, 1927

1 in 464,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoshiyuki: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Yoshiyuki means

Yoshiyuki is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoshiyuki is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Yoshiyuki between 1918 and 1927. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1924; its best national rank was #3,020 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 Yoshiyuki?

Yoshiyuki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1927: 1 in 464,000; 5 of 2,319,281 births
Among boys only: 1 in 225,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1927: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 321,522 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Yoshiyuki 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 1927 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 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoshiyuki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoshiyukis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yoshiyuki was born before 1922 — so the typical Yoshiyuki is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 80.6% 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 — 80.6% of all recorded uses (29).

Is Yoshiyuki 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 1924 (10)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,020; 1924

Where Yoshiyuki is used

Across 1910–2025, Yoshiyuki was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 1,499,918 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

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

Yoshiyuki around the world

Where Yoshiyuki 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.

South Australia
1973–1973
#454
in 1973

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yoshiyuki 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: #3,020; 1924
Peak year: 1924; 10 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 1927
All-time count: 36
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Yoshiyuki

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

Yoshinobu Yoshihiro Yoshinori Yoshiharu Yoshitaka Yoshikazu Yoshiaki Yoshiro Yosniel Yosuf Yoshihiko Yoshiyahu Yoshiki Yosvani Yoshiyah Yoshimi Yosohn Yosiel Toshiyuki Tatsuki Yosgarth Takayuki Yoscar Yosuke

Sibling names for Yoshiyuki

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

Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell Dorris Leonora

For a brother

Alvis Eldridge Merritt Lacy Delmer Wilton Elwin Domenick

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