girls:
30 births since 1915
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
65 births since 1917
#4521 (1st percentile)
overall:
95 births since 1915
#7644 (1st percentile)
The name Yoshimi is the #7,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,521 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1915.
Yoshimi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1917 for boys). Birth data for Yoshimi is available in 13 out of the 75 years between 1915 and 1989 (10 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Yoshimi has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.4% of all recorded births). In 1989, 0.0% of babies named Yoshimi were boys.
For boys, Yoshimi reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #513) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1929.
For girls, Yoshimi reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yoshimi".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yoshimi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Yoshimi is pronounced as yoh-SHEE-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YOH-shee-mee, at 21.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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