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Yoshie

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Pronounced yoh-SHEE-eh /joˈʃi.e/Medium

Meaning: Yoshie is a Japanese feminine name built on 'yoshi', meaning 'good, righteous, blessed', with a final 'e' often read as 'branch', 'bay', or 'blessing'. The precise meaning depends on the chosen characters, but the 'good, blessed' sense runs through them.Medium

In 30 seconds: Yoshie is a Japanese girl's name from 'yoshi', 'good, blessed' — carried by the early Japanese-American generations (said 'yoh-SHEE-eh').

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MeaningYoshie is a Japanese feminine name built on 'yoshi', meaning 'good, righteous, blessed', with a final 'e' often read as 'branch', 'bay', or 'blessing'. The precise meaning depends on the chosen characters, but the 'good, blessed' sense runs through them.

U.S. rank (1940)#4344 ↗ Rising

1940 U.S. births6 girls (0.00% of U.S. girls)

Peak year1924

Total births (all-time)≈ 395

Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data

U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.

SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.

History & Origin

Yoshie is a Japanese feminine name from 'yoshi', 'good' or 'blessed', with a final element read as 'branch' or 'blessing'. In the United States it belonged to the immigrant Issei and their Nisei daughters, part of the early Japanese-American community of the early twentieth century.

Its record runs only from the mid-nineteen-tens into around nineteen-forty, never more than a few dozen girls a year, thinning around the wartime years that disrupted Japanese-American communities. We present it as the honest trace of that cohort, handled with respect rather than as a passing style.

Did you know? Like other names of its cohort, Yoshie appears in the American record only through the decades before the Second World War, a quiet marker of the early Japanese-American families of that time.

Overall data confidence 60%

References — Yoshie — Japanese 'good/blessed'; pre-WWII Issei/Nisei cohort; romaji only

Variations

Yoshiko

Nicknames

Yoshi

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Frequently Asked

What does the name Yoshie mean?

Yoshie is a Japanese name from 'yoshi', meaning 'good' or 'blessed', with an ending read as 'branch' or 'blessing'.

How do you pronounce Yoshie?

It's said yoh-SHEE-eh /joˈʃi.e/ — three syllables, stress on the second.

Is Yoshie a boy or girl name?

Yoshie is used as a girl's name.

How popular is Yoshie?

Yoshie has always been very rare in the U.S., borne by early Japanese-American families before the Second World War.