Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yoshihiro 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 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshihiro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 5 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 5 in 1995. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 398 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.
Yoshihiro’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshihiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 伊洋. In Japanese usage, Yoshihiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳寛. In Japanese usage, Yoshihiro is a transliteration of 佳寛.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 23
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 佳寛in another script · Japanese
- 佳浩in another script · Japanese
- 佳弘in another script · Japanese
- 義広original script · Japanese
- 好博original script · Japanese
- 伊洋original script · Japanese
- 好広in another script · Japanese
- 昌弘in another script · Japanese
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- 祥浩original script · Japanese
- 由弘original script · Japanese
- 良洋original script · Japanese
- 良弘original script · Japanese
- 吉弘original script · Japanese
- 善裕original script · Japanese
- 好弘original script · Japanese
- 善博original script · Japanese
- 昌宏original script · Japanese
- 慶裕original script · Japanese
- 吉宏original script · Japanese
- 吉博original script · Japanese
- 義弘original script · Japanese
- よしひろoriginal script · Japanese
- 欣厚original script · Japanese
People named Yoshihiro
- Francis FukuyamaAmerican political scientist, political economist, and authorborn 1952
- Yoshihiro NatsukaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1969
- Yoshihiro TogashiJapanese manga artistborn 1966
- Yoshihiro NishidaJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Yoshihiro UchimuraJapanese association football playerborn 1984
- Shimazu Yoshihiro[島津義弘] samurai of the Sengoku period1535–1619
- Yoshihiro HamaguchiJapanese Olympic Swimmer (1926–2011)
- Yoshihiro ShojiJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Yoshihiro MasukoJapanese association football playerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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