Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshinori through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 8 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 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 224 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.
Yoshinori’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshinori is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしのり. In Japanese usage, Yoshinori is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳典. In Japanese usage, Yoshinori is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳範.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 19
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 叔功original script · Japanese
- 良則original script · Japanese
- 祥徳original script · Japanese
- 芳典original script · Japanese
- よしのりoriginal script · Japanese
- 由規original script · Japanese
- 善紀original script · Japanese
- 祥規original script · Japanese
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- 美摸original script · Japanese
- 善則original script · Japanese
- 良紀original script · Japanese
- 義紀original script · Japanese
- 喜則original script · Japanese
- 佳典original script · Japanese
- 義則original script · Japanese
- 義典original script · Japanese
- 佳紀original script · Japanese
- 佳範original script · Japanese
- 柱憲original script · Japanese
People named Yoshinori
- Yoshinori OhsumiJapanese molecular biologist (1945 - )
- Yoshinori MutoJapanese association football playerborn 1992
- Yoshinori IshigamiJapanese association football playerborn 1957
- Yoshinori ShigematsuJapanese association football player1930–2018
- Yoshinori TaguchiJapanese association football playerborn 1965
- Yoshinori HigashikawaJapanese association football playerborn 1964
- Yoshinori AbeJapanese association football playerborn 1972
- Yoshinori SembikiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1964
- Yoshinori FurubeJapanese association football playerborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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