Hikari — #7035 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Hikari

The Social Security Administration has registered 269 babies named Hikari between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hikari currently holds the #7035 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hikari performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Hikari shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hikari in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hikari in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 269 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.