Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Yoshimi comes from Japanese, and ultimately from Japanese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshimi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 95
- 65 boys · 30 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 12 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 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 477 as a first name in 2020; 121 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoshimi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshimi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 予史実. In Japanese usage, Yoshimi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳美. In Japanese usage, Yoshimi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 優美.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 12
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshimi
- Yoshimi YamashitaJapanese association football refereeborn 1986
- Yoshimi OzakiJapanese marathon runner (1981-)
- Yoshimi SasaharaJapanese association football playerborn 1974
- Yoshimi KatayamaJapanese motorcycle and car racer (1940–2016)
- Yoshimi OsawaJapanese judoka (1926-2022)
- Yoshimi TakeuchiJapanese academic1910–1977
- Yoshimi WatanabeJapanese politicianborn 1952
- Ashikaga Yoshimibrother of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa1439–1491
- Yoshimi IwasakiJapanese singer and actressborn 1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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