Yoshii
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ioʃii/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yoshii is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 703K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1000K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yoşhii in TM Turkmenistan.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoshii counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Yoshii | 91 |
| BR Brazil | 301 | 1 in 703K | 301 | — | — |
| US United States | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 206 | Yoshii | 77 |
| CA Canada | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Yoshii | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Yoshii | 7 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1000K | — | Yoşhii | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Yoshii | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yoshii Isamub. 1886JPJapanese writer (1886–1960)
- Masato Yoshiib. 1965JPJapanese professional baseball player, MLB player, coach, manager
- Kazuya Yoshiib. 1966JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Manami Yoshiib. 1981JPJapanese actress
- Rei Yoshiib. 1982JPJapanese actress
- Masao Yoshiib. 1984JPactor
- Sayuri Yoshiib. 1984JPJapanese speed skater
- Kosuke Yoshiib. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Naoto Yoshiib. 1987JPJapanese association football player
- Kanae Yoshiib. 1993JPJapanese actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yoshii?
- A machine transcription gives /ioʃii/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Yoshii have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Yoshii in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoshii.
- How common is the name Yoshii?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 301 people named Yoshii, about 1 in 703 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yoshii?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoshiiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yoshii”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.