Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoshiyuki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 36
- 36 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 10 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 10 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 226 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.
Yoshiyuki’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Yoshiyuki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of よしゆき. In Japanese usage, Yoshiyuki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佳之. In Japanese usage, Yoshiyuki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 叔功.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yoshiyuki
- Yoshiyuki MatsuyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1966
- Yoshiyuki HasegawaJapanese association football playerborn 1969
- Yoshiyuki KatoJapanese association football playerborn 1964
- Yoshiyuki ShinodaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1971
- Yoshiyuki KobayashiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1978
- Yoshiyuki Tsurutaswimmer (1903–1986)
- Yoshiyuki TakemotoJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Yoshiyuki SadamotoJapanese animator and cartoonist (1962-)
- Yoshiyuki SakamotoJapanese association football playerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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