Toshio

Where Toshio comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Toshio.

  • Vowel-ended
Toshio through the years
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,885 among boys with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #849
    66 babies named Toshio, the most in any year.
  3. 1925
    Toshio Iwatani born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,267.
  5. 1955
    Toshio Matsuura born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Toshio Matsuura · Japanese association football player, born 1955
  • Toshio Iwatani · Japanese association football player, 1925–1970
  • Toshio Miyaji · Japanese association football player, died 1999
  • Toshio Takabayashi · Japanese association football player, born 1953
  • Toshio Suzuki · Japanese film producer, born 1948

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.