Given name & surname
Shoji
Shoji is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Portuguese.
Original Japaneseしょうじ
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shoji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 134
- 134 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 81 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1945. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 81 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 264 as a first name in 2020; 370 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shoji’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Shoji was borrowed from the Japanese form しょうじ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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