Given name & surname
Yoshino
“one who is respectful and good”·“a good-hearted man; one who is free”
Yoshino 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
Yoshino 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
Yoshino 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 1907. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 0 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 9 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 9 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 105 as a first name in 2020; 549 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.
Yoshino’s family of names
Yoshino has a related form in Yoshi. In Japanese usage, Yoshino is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳乃. In Japanese usage, Yoshino is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 吉能.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yoshino
- Yoshino KimuraJapanese-British actress and singerborn 1976
- Yoshino NanjōJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1984
- Yoshino AoyamaJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1996
- Yoshino NakashimaJapanese association football playerborn 1999
- Yoshino TakamoriJapanese voice actressborn 1963
- Yoshino SatoJapanese volleyball playerborn 2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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