Given name & surname
Yoshie
“one who is respectful and good”·“a good-hearted man; one who is free”
Yoshie is a variant of Yoshi. Interpretations include “one who is respectful and good” (Japanese) and “a good-hearted man; one who is free” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yoshie is a variant of Yoshi. Interpretations include “one who is respectful and good” (Japanese) and “a good-hearted man; one who is free” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yoshie is a variant of Yoshi. An origin associated with Yoshi is Japanese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 395
- 0 boys · 395 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 38 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 1940. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 38 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 863 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.
Yoshie’s family of names
Yoshie has a related form in Yoshi. In Japanese usage, Yoshie is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳絵. In Japanese usage, Yoshie is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 克恵.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshie
- Yoshie KasajimaJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Yoshie UenoJapanese judokaborn 1983
- Yoshie TakeshitaJapanese volleyball playerborn 1978
- Yoshie ShiratoriJapanese escape artist1907–1979
- Yoshie OndaJapanese figure skaterborn 1982
- Yoshie HayasakaJapanese actor and singerborn 1975
- Yoshie FujiwaraJapanese opera singer (1898–1976)
- Yoshie HottaJapanese novelist and writer (1918–1998)
- Yoshie KashiwabaraJapanese singerborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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