Yoshie

Where Yoshie comes from

The dictionaries list Yoshie as a given name — a female given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,009 among girls, 12 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #1,301
    38 babies named Yoshie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,433.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Yoshie hasn't yet.

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.