Yoshio
Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799
- Peak · boys
- 1921 · 73 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,175since 1910
Yoshio over time
Rank among boys' names. Yoshio has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,130 | 6 |
| 1939 | #3,480 | 5 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,127 | 12 |
| 1934 | #2,266 | 11 |
| 1933 | #1,829 | 15 |
| 1932 | #1,356 | 26 |
| 1931 | #1,693 | 18 |
| 1930 | #1,259 | 32 |
| 1929 | #1,129 | 38 |
| 1928 | #1,353 | 29 |
| 1927 | #1,145 | 39 |
| 1926 | #1,018 | 46 |
| 1925 | #924 | 53 |
| 1924 | #925 | 57 |
| 1923 | #913 | 56 |
| 1922 | #928 | 56 |
| 1921 | #790 | 73 |
| 1920 | #940 | 54 |
| 1919 | #918 | 53 |
| 1918 | #805 | 66 |
| 1917 | #804 | 61 |
| 1916 | #892 | 49 |
| 1915 | #941 | 44 |
| 1914 | #986 | 32 |
| 1913 | #1,075 | 22 |
| 1912 | #1,417 | 12 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | #1,589 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yoshio! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1939, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yoshio is popular in 1940
No state had 5 or more boys named Yoshio in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yoshio
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Biggest jump: 150 spots in 1921 (#940 → #790)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 1922 (#790 → #928)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1921 at #790 (73 births)
- Births halved by 1928, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1914–1925
- Highest: 1 in 15,088 boys born in 1921 were named Yoshio (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
- 42.6% of all boys named Yoshio (501) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 349 | #804 (1917) | #1,117 |
| 1920s | 501 | #790 (1921) | #1,007 |
| 1930s | 135 | #1,259 (1930) | #2,165 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,130 (1940) | #3,345 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 71 | #3,401 (1985) | #5,203 |
| 1990s | 50 | #5,521 (1991) | #7,053 |
| 2000s | 42 | #8,299 (2005) | #10,285 |
| 2010s | 10 | #12,145 (2019) | #12,151 |
| 2020s | 6 | #10,799 (2021) | #10,799 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yoshio in 1940
Top boys' names in 1940
More about 1940
boys
1,159,172 boys got a published name in 1940; 1 in 193,195 of them was named Yoshio, which outranked 20.5% of the 3,937 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,871Winthrop7
- #2,871Zebedee7
- #2,871Zenon7
- #3,130Yoshio6
- #3,130Abbie6
- #3,130Abdul6
- #3,130Ad6
- #3,459Abbey5
- #3,459Abron5
- #3,459Abundio5
Tied with 328 names at #3,130; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.