Yoshiko

Where Yoshiko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese 美子, 芳子 (よしこ, Yoshiko, literally “good, excellent child”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yoshiko
  • Japanese
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,553 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1907
    Yoshiko Kawashima born
    Japanese spy in China
  3. 1920
    Yoshiko Yamaguchi born
    Japanese singer and actress
  4. 1921
    Peak, #793
    85 babies named Yoshiko — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,239.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Yoshiko Yamaguchi · Japanese singer and actress, 1920–2014
  • Yoshiko Kawashima · Japanese spy in China, 1907–1948
  • Yoshiko Kuga · Japanese actress, 1931–2024
  • Yoshiko Tanaka · Japanese singer and actress, 1956–2011
  • Yoshiko Matsumura · Japanese volleyball player, born 1941

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.