Yoshito
given name · Latin script
Meaning: $ ‘Good man’; ‘lucky man’ (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
Yoshito is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
- BRBrazil1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)$ ‘Good man’; ‘lucky man’.
Cited for this meaning 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 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | listed | Yoshito | 93 |
| US United States | 127 | 1 in 2.6M | 125 | Yoshito | 76 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 85 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Yoshito | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | listed | Yoshito | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Yoshito | 3 |
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 Sengokub. 1946JPJapanese politician (1946-2018)
- Yoshito Usuib. 1958JPJapanese mangaka (1958–2009)
- Yoshito Okubob. 1982JPJapanese 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
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.
- Is Yoshito a male or female name?
- Yoshito is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Yoshito?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Yoshito in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoshito. After it come United States, Brazil, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Yoshito?
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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 2026-10-13.