Yoshio
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yoshio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 538K
- CNChina≈1 in 264K
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
- 152 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoshio 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 | #393 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Yoshio | 132 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Yoshio | 13 |
| US United States | — | 618 | 1 in 538K | 614 | Yoshio | 152 |
| BR Brazil | — | 485 | 1 in 437K | 770 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Yoshio | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Yoshio | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
- Yoshio Nishinab. 1890JPJapanese physicist (1890–1951)
- Yoshio Kosugib. 1903JPJapanese actor (1903–1968)
- Yoshio Tabatab. 1919JPJapanese singer, songwriter and electric guitarist (1919-2013)
- Yoshio Tsuchiyab. 1927JPJapanese actor (1927–2017)
- Yoshio Okadab. 1934JPJapanese painter
- Yoshio Taniguchib. 1937JPJapanese architect
- Yoshio Koideb. 1939JPJapanese long-distance runner, coach
- Yoshio Haradab. 1940JPJapanese actor (1940-2011)
- Yoshio Hachirob. 1948JPJapanese politician
- Yoshio Kojimab. 1980JPJapanese comedian
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 770 | #4,551 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 757 | #10,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 614 | #17,700 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 485 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 478 | #13,686 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 465 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 423 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 294 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 154 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 140 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 129 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 86 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Is Yoshio a male or female name?
- Yoshio 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 Yoshio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Yoshio in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoshio.
- How common is the name Yoshio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 618 people named Yoshio in 2020, about 1 in 538 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoshio compared with other names?
- In Japan, Yoshio is the 393rd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yoshio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoshioThe 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, “Yoshio” — the 393rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.