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Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 吉洋, 愛洋, 伊洋, 允洋, 佳洋, 可洋, 嘉洋, 賀洋, 歓洋, 喜洋, 貴洋, 宜洋, 義洋, 圭洋, 恵洋, 慶洋, 厳洋, 垢洋, 好洋, 孔洋, 克洋, 善洋, 禎洋, 美洋, 芳洋, 由洋, 良洋, 贇洋, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Pronounced Pron. YO-SHEE-HEE-ṘO  [key]

Meaning & History

From Japanese 吉 (yoshi) meaning "good luck", 愛 (yoshi) meaning "love, affection", 伊 (yoshi) meaning "Iraq, Iran", 允 (yoshi) meaning "to grant, to allow, to consent", 佳 (yoshi) meaning "beautiful, good", 可 (yoshi) meaning "passable", 嘉 (yoshi) meaning "praise, auspicious", 賀 (yoshi) meaning "congratulate, greet, celebrate", 歓 (yoshi) meaning "happy, pleased, glad", 喜 (yoshi) meaning "rejoice", 宜 (yoshi) meaning "best regards", 義 (yoshi) meaning "right conduct; righteousness; justice; morality", 圭 (yoshi) meaning "jade pointed at top", 恵 (yoshi) meaning "favour, benefit", 慶 (yoshi) meaning "celebrate", 厳 (yoshi) meaning "strict, rigorous, rigid, stern", 垢 (yoshi) meaning "grime", 好 (yoshi) meaning "fondness; what one likes", 孔 (yoshi) meaning "hole, aperture, opening", 克 (yoshi) meaning "gram, gramme", 善 (yoshi) meaning "good, virtuous, charitable, kind", 禎 (yoshi) meaning "lucky, auspicious, good omen", 美 (yoshi) meaning "beautiful", 芳 (yoshi) meaning "fragrant", 由 (yoshi) meaning "cause, reason", 良 (yoshi) meaning "good, virtuous, respectable" or 贇 (yoshi) meaning "affable, agreeable, pleasant" combined with 洋 (hiro) meaning "ocean". Other kanji combinations are possible.

Famous bearers of this name are Yoshihiro Doi, a Japanese baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Saitama Seibu Lions and Yokohama BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball from 1998 through 2010, Yoshihiro Ito, a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, Yoshihiro Maru, is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Yoshihiro Suzuki, a retired Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball for the entirety of his career, Yoshihiro Nakano, a Japanese footballer who plays for Kawasaki Frontale, Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (known as Francis Fukuyama), an American political scientist, political economist, and author of Japanese descent, Yoshihiro Togashi, a Japanese manga artist and Hachisuka Yoshihiro who was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who ruled the Tokushima Domain.
Added 12/29/2016 by lilolaf
Edited 6/4/2017 by lilolaf