Kiyoshi

Where Kiyoshi comes from

Borrowed from Japanese きよし (Kiyoshi).
— Wiktionary's entry for Kiyoshi
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Kiyoshi through the years
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1915
    Kiyoshi Itō born
    Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
  3. 1923
    Peak, #835
    66 babies named Kiyoshi, the most in any year.
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,293.
  5. 1943
    Kiyoshi Tomizawa born
    Japanese association football player
  6. 1991
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Kiyoshi Tomizawa · Japanese association football player, born 1943
  • Kiyoshi Itō · Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus, 1915–2008
  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa · Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic, born 1955
  • Kiyoshi Okuma · Japanese association football player and manager, born 1964
  • Kiyoshi Shiga · Japanese physician, 1871–1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.