Given name
Yoshiko
“one who is respectful and good”·“a good-hearted man; one who is free”
Yoshiko 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
Yoshiko 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
Yoshiko 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 1906. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshiko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,331
- 0 boys · 1,331 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 85 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 7 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 85 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,480 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.
Yoshiko’s family of names
Yoshiko has a related form in Yoshi. In Japanese usage, Yoshiko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしこ. In French usage, Yoshiko was borrowed from the Japanese form よしこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshiko
- Yoshiko YamaguchiJapanese singer and actress (1920-2014)
- Yoshiko KawashimaJapanese spy in China (1907-1948)
- Yoshiko KugaJapanese actress (1931–2024)
- Nakayama YoshikoJapanese concubine (1836-1907)
- Yoshiko TanakaJapanese singer and actress (1956-2011)
- Yoshiko SakakibaraJapanese voice actressborn 1956
- Yoshiko MatsumuraJapanese volleyball playerborn 1941
- Yoshiko OkadaJapanese and Soviet actress, announcer, and left-wing theater performer1902–1992
- Yoshiko YuasaJapanese translator1896–1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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