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Yoshi

Boy · Japanese

Yoshi is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Yoshi mean?

Japanese

A male given name from Japanese.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Yoshi a girl's or a boy's name?

Yoshi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yoshi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Yoshi, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 1923.

2025 had fewer boys named Yoshi than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Yoshi in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

1923Busiest: 17 in 20112025
Yoshi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20249#8,307
202315#5,922
202214#6,141
202113#6,330
20206#10,599
201912#6,772
20189#8,150
20178#8,835
20166#10,739
20155#12,080
20147#9,636
20130–
201212#6,620
201117#5,196
20109#8,133
200910#7,687
200812#6,758
20078#8,909
20060–
200512#6,220
20046#9,941
20035#10,886
20020–
20017#8,332
20005#10,341
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19235#4,236

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