Yoshiko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Good child’; ‘fragrant child’; ‘noble child’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yoshiko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 134K
- ISIceland≈1 in 86K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Good child’; ‘fragrant child’; ‘noble child’. 314
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoshiko 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 | #150 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Yoshiko | 140 |
| US United States | — | 2,480 | 1 in 134K | 2.5K | Yoshiko | 172 |
| BR Brazil | — | 726 | 1 in 292K | 960 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 188K | listed | Yoshiko | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Yoshiko | 29 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Yoshiko | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Yoshiko | 12 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | — | — |
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; the is-skra-nofn 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)
- Nakayama Yoshikob. 1836JPJapanese concubine (1836-1907)
- Yuasa Yoshikob. 1896JPJapanese translator
- Yoshiko Kawashimab. 1907CNJapanese spy in China (1907-1948)
- Ranko Hanaib. 1918JPnot in their usual nameactress (1918-1961)
- Yoshiko Ōtakab. 1920JPJapanese singer and actress (1920-2014)
- Yoshiko Kugab. 1931JPJapanese actress (1931–2024)
- Yoshiko Sakuraib. 1945JPJapanese journalist
- Ayumi Ishidab. 1948JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer and actress (1948–2025)
- Yoshiko Tanakab. 1956JPJapanese singer and actress (1956-2011)
- Yoshiko Miyazakib. 1958JPJapanese actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,473 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 960 | #4,715 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 953 | #9,501 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 726 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 718 | #10,342 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 691 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 522 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 297 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 209 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 169 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 85 | — |
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
- Where does the name Yoshiko come from?
- ‘Good child’; ‘fragrant child’; ‘noble child’. 314 Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Yoshiko mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Good child’; ‘fragrant child’; ‘noble child’.
- Is Yoshiko a male or female name?
- Yoshiko is a female 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 Yoshiko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Yoshiko in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoshiko.
- How common is the name Yoshiko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,480 people named Yoshiko in 2020, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoshiko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yoshiko is the 150th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoshikoThe 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, “Yoshiko” — the 150th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.