Yoshio

Where Yoshio comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Yoshio.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Yoshio through the years
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Peak, #790
    73 babies named Yoshio, the most in any year.
  3. 1926
    Yoshio Okada born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,353.
  5. 1934
    Yoshio Furukawa born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Yoshio Furukawa · Japanese association football player, born 1934
  • Yoshio Okada · Japanese association football player, 1926–2002
  • Yoshio Kikugawa · Japanese association football player and manager, 1944–2022
  • Yoshio Kato · Japanese association football player, born 1957
  • Yoshio Nishina · Japanese physicist, 1890–1951

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.