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Toshie
How to Pronounce Toshie
Pronounced TOH-shee-eh /ˈtoʃiɛ/Low
Meaning: Toshie is a traditional Japanese girl's name. Its exact meaning depends on the written characters a family chooses, but it is often built on the element toshi, which can mean 'year,' 'clever,' or 'sharp,' paired with the -e ending long favored for women's names. It is given here in plain romaji.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Toshie is a Japanese women's name whose meaning is set by its kanji, most often drawing on toshi, 'year, clever, sharp,' with the traditional feminine ending -e. In United States records it appears chiefly among Japanese American families of the early twentieth century, before the Second World War.
It was never common in America and belonged mostly to that immigrant generation, reaching only about twenty girls a year at its high point around the early nineteen-twenties. A girl named Toshie then would have been born more than a century ago.
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What does the name Toshie mean?
It is a Japanese girl's name; its meaning depends on the kanji, often built on toshi, 'year' or 'clever.'
How do you pronounce Toshie?
It is said TOH-shee-eh /ˈtoʃiɛ/, three syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Toshie a boy or girl name?
Toshie is a girl's name of Japanese origin.
How popular is the name Toshie?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty girls a year even at its peak in the early nineteen-twenties, mostly in Japanese American families.