Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yoshiaki isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshiaki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 89
- 89 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 13 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 6 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 289 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoshiaki’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshiaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしあき. In Japanese usage, Yoshiaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 与明. In Japanese usage, Yoshiaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳明.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 28
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 義昭in another script · Japanese
- 貴昭original script · Japanese
- 宜右original script · Japanese
- よしあきoriginal script · Japanese
- 儀介original script · Japanese
- 克明original script · Japanese
- 喜章original script · Japanese
- 与明original script · Japanese
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- 儀彰original script · Japanese
- 儀秋original script · Japanese
- 儀明original script · Japanese
- 可昭original script · Japanese
- 可晃original script · Japanese
- 可明original script · Japanese
- 宜彬original script · Japanese
- 吉明original script · Japanese
- 宜明original script · Japanese
- 義晃original script · Japanese
- 良明original script · Japanese
- 好明original script · Japanese
- 嘉明original script · Japanese
- 善朗original script · Japanese
- 良昭original script · Japanese
- 穆成original script · Japanese
- 佳明original script · Japanese
- 義朗original script · Japanese
- 芳明original script · Japanese
- 義明original script · Japanese
People named Yoshiaki
- Yoshiaki SatoJapanese association football playerborn 1969
- Yoshiaki OtaJapanese association football playerborn 1983
- Yoshiaki MaruyamaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1974
- Yoshiaki FujitaJapanese association football playerborn 1983
- Yoshiaki TakagiJapanese association football playerborn 1992
- Yoshiaki ShimojoJapanese association football player and managerborn 1954
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki15th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1568–1573)1537–1597
- Yoshiaki KomaiJapanese association football playerborn 1992
- Yoshiaki KoizumiJapanese video game designer (born 1968)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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