Shoji

Where Shoji comes from

Borrowed from Japanese しょうじ (Shōji).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shoji
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,496 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1927
    Shoji Sadao born
    Japanese American architect
  3. 1927
    Peak, #722
    81 babies named Shoji — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,697.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Shoji Sadao · Japanese American architect, 1927–2019

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.