Given name & surname
Yoshida
Yoshida is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Original Japaneseよしだ
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 0 boys · 27 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 16 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 girls is 6 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,048 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.
Yoshida’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshida as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしだ. In English usage, Yoshida as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 吉田. In Japanese usage, Yoshida as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 由田.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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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