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

Where it comes from

Yoshida comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 吉田 (Yoshida).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02.557.51020002025Highest share 19810.0
Yoshida in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1981–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

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.

Walk Yoshida’s family in the name graph

Yoshidaよしだ由田吉田

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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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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