Yoshito
given name · Latin script
Meaning: $ ‘Good man’; ‘lucky man’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/joʊʃitoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yoshito is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 406K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
$ ‘Good man’; ‘lucky man’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoshito counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Yoshito | 93 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 125 | Yoshito | 76 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 85 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Yoshito | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Yoshito | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Yoshito | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Yoshito | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the hanks-first-names-2001 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yoshito Kishib. 1937JPJapanese synthetic organic chemist (1937–2023)
- Yoshito Sengokub. 1946JPJapanese politician (1946-2018)
- Yoshito Yasuharab. 1949JPJapanese voice actor
- Yoshito Miyamurab. 1952JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Yoshito Usuib. 1958JPJapanese mangaka (1958–2009)
- Yoshito Horib. 1962JPJapanese businessman
- Yoshito Terakawab. 1974JPJapanese association football player
- Yoshito Okubob. 1982JPJapanese association football player
- Yoshito Kobashigawab. 1982JPactor
- Yoshito Matsushitab. 1989JPJapanese association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 125 | #49,173 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 85 | #20,784 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 70 | #42,553 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #51,891 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 52 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 15 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yoshito mean, and where does it come from?
- $ ‘Good man’; ‘lucky man’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Yoshito?
- A machine transcription gives /joʊʃitoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Yoshito a male or female name?
- Yoshito is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Yoshito have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Yoshito in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoshito.
- How common is the name Yoshito?
- In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Yoshito in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoshitoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yoshito”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.