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Please add the spelling of ヨシ, spelled like this it was one of the most popular girls names in Japan in the 1910s.
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Yoshi was a very popular girl's name in Japan in the early 1900s.
It peaked at #6 (1912-1914) and was last seen in the top 10 in 1919.
It was most commonly spelled as ヨシ.
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It peaked at #6 (1912-1914) and was last seen in the top 10 in 1919.
It was most commonly spelled as ヨシ.
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Based on some research that I've done (gathering names from passenger lists and US census data), Yoshi was popular for girls in the late Edo period and the Meiji period. Most of the female Yoshis would have had their names written in kana.
This goes back to the fact that 2 syllable names were preferred at the time, more so before the Meiji period, which is why Yoshi was seen as a girl's name. Towards the 2nd half of the Meiji period and the Taishō period, those types of names were quickly shunted out in popularity by names ending in *ko.
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This goes back to the fact that 2 syllable names were preferred at the time, more so before the Meiji period, which is why Yoshi was seen as a girl's name. Towards the 2nd half of the Meiji period and the Taishō period, those types of names were quickly shunted out in popularity by names ending in *ko.
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