Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yoshiharu 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 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshiharu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 73
- 73 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 10 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 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoshiharu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshiharu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしはる. In Japanese usage, Yoshiharu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 吉晴. In Japanese usage, Yoshiharu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 善治.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yoshiharu
- Yoshiharu UenoJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Yoshiharu HoriiJapanese association football player and manager1953–2025
- Ashikaga Yoshiharu12th shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1521–1546)1511–1550
- Yoshiharu HabuJapanese shogi and chess playerborn 1970
- Yoshiharu TsugeJapanese cartoonist1937–2026
- Yoshiharu MinamiJapanese judoka1951–2024
- Iwamoto Yoshiharuearly and prominent advocate of women's education in Meiji Japan1863–1942
- Yoshiharu TomonagaJapanese athleteborn 1950
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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