Given name
Yoshio
“one who is respectful and good”·“a good-hearted man; one who is free”
Yoshio 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
Yoshio 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
Yoshio 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 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,175
- 1,175 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 73 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 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 73 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 618 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.
Yoshio’s family of names
Yoshio has a related form in Yoshi. In Japanese usage, Yoshio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしお. In Japanese usage, Yoshio is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 克夫.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 26
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- Yoshyolikely spelling
- 善男original script · Japanese
- 義夫original script · Japanese
- 由郎original script · Japanese
- 芳男original script · Japanese
- 嘉男original script · Japanese
- 恵雄original script · Japanese
- 芳雄original script · Japanese
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- 良夫original script · Japanese
- 誉夫original script · Japanese
- 義雄original script · Japanese
- 吉男original script · Japanese
- 芳夫original script · Japanese
- 善雄original script · Japanese
- 義男original script · Japanese
- 捷夫original script · Japanese
- 克夫original script · Japanese
- 克郎original script · Japanese
- 喜夫original script · Japanese
- 善夫original script · Japanese
- 吉雄original script · Japanese
- 良男original script · Japanese
- 克雄original script · Japanese
- 栄男original script · Japanese
- 芳郎original script · Japanese
- よしおoriginal script · Japanese
People named Yoshio
- Yoshio FurukawaJapanese association football playerborn 1934
- Yoshio KatoJapanese association football playerborn 1957
- Yoshio OkadaJapanese association football player (1926–2002)
- Yoshio KikugawaJapanese association football player and manager (1944-2022)
- Yoshio NishinaJapanese physicist (1890–1951)
- Yoshio KitajimaJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Yoshio KitagawaJapanese association football playerborn 1978
- Yoshio KoizumiJapanese association football playerborn 1996
- AkeboshiJapanese singer-songwriter (1978-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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