Given name & surname
Yoshikazu
Yoshikazu is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Yoshikazu 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 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshikazu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 7 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 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 156 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.
Yoshikazu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshikazu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳一. In Japanese usage, Yoshikazu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳和. In Japanese usage, Yoshikazu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 善和.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 嘉数original script · Japanese
- 喜一original script · Japanese
- 善和original script · Japanese
- 佳和original script · Japanese
- 良嘉original script · Japanese
- 佳一original script · Japanese
- 祥和original script · Japanese
- 由一original script · Japanese
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People named Yoshikazu
- Ashikaga YoshikazuThe fifth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1407–1425)
- Yoshikazu GotoJapanese association football playerborn 1964
- Yoshikazu SuzukiJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Yoshikazu MeraJapanese countertenor singerborn 1971
- Yoshikazu YasuhikoJapanese mangaka and animatorborn 1947
- Yoshikazu FujimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1972
- Yoshikazu KotaniJapanese actorborn 1982
- Yoshikazu UchidaJapanese architect (1885-1972)
- GaaSyyJapanese politician and YouTuberborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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