Meaning & origin
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
Yoshinobu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 33 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 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 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1925.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoshinobu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshinobu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしのぶ. In Japanese usage, Yoshinobu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 善伸. In Japanese usage, Yoshinobu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 好修.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 8
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshinobu
- Yoshinobu MinowaJapanese association football playerborn 1976
- Yoshinobu IshiiJapanese association football player and manager (1939–2018)
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1837–1913)
- Yoshinobu MiyakeJapanese weightlifterborn 1939
- Yoshinobu HaradaJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Yoshi OyakawaAmerican swimmerborn 1933
- Yoshinobu YamamotoJapanese baseball playerborn 1998
- Satake Yoshinobudaimyo1570–1633
- Yoshinobu ShibaJapanese historian of Chinaborn 1930
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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