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I suppose if your mother is Japanese, she knows what she's talking about. But - I really can't find Yojiro as meaning fourth son. Especially the "Jiro" part usually indicates "second son" - which would still be weird for the first son though ;)

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I think there has been a confusion between "Jiro" (second son) and "Shiro" (fourth son). It would be better to clear this up first, because those two names - Yojiro and Yoshiro would be pronounced differently and have different meanings/kanji as well. (if you care about this)

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I could find one (existing) possible Kanji spelling of Yojiro, that does not indicate which son it is ^^;

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与治郎

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It uses the characters for "present/gift (something you receive)", "heal, get well, manage" and "son".

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While Yoshiro can be written as:

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喜郎 or 吉郎 or 義郎

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using the characters of "happiness" or "lucky" or "righteous" and "son".

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In all of these names the character of son "郎" can also be replaced by 朗 meaning "clarion, melodious, bright, cheerful" etc. The pronunciation is the same.

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Maybe show this to your mother and get her opinion on it. :)