Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yoshikatsu 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 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshikatsu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 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 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoshikatsu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshikatsu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしかつ. In Japanese usage, Yoshikatsu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 義勝. In Japanese usage, Yoshikatsu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 能功.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshikatsu
- Yoshikatsu KawaguchiJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Ashikaga YoshikatsuThe seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1434-1443)
- Yoshikatsu YoshidaJapanese sport wrestlerborn 1941
- Mōri YoshikatsuJapanese samurai1600–1582
- Tokugawa Yoshikatsudaimyo (1824–1883)
- Sō Yoshikatsudaimyō of Tsushima han1773–1813
- Yoshikatsu TakeiriJapanese politician (1926–2023)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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