Hiroshi
Hiroshi was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,059 among boys’ names; 1,565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hiroshi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hiroshi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hiroshi is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese ひろし (Hiroshi).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hiroshi?
#10,059 among boys’ names, 2025
Hiroshi fell from #6,459 in 2015 to #10,059 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 4.1 per million.
81 babies in 1924, the peak
Hiroshi peaked in 1924, when 81 boys were given it, #740 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,059 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,963 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,753 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,183 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,846 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,423 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,925 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,627 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,787 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,314 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,459 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,939 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,758 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,568 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,269 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,245 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,551 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,272 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,629 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,480 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,446 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,827 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,520 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,890 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,276 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,988 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,377 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,349 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,096 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,667 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,241 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,043 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,371 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,392 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,819 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,068 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,711 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,249 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,146 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,670 | 4.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,175 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,607 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,514 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,736 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,617 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,638 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,734 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,378 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,691 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,803 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,314 | 2.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,516 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,272 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,832 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,299 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,995 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,527 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,254 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,791 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,004 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,788 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,751 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,675 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,617 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,663 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,511 | 21.9 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,048 | 40.0 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,136 | 35.2 |
| 1927 | 56 | #916 | 49.7 |
| 1926 | 50 | #972 | 45.0 |
| 1925 | 77 | #751 | 69.0 |
| 1924 | 81 | #740 | 71.5 |
| 1923 | 69 | #809 | 63.0 |
| 1922 | 61 | #886 | 56.1 |
| 1921 | 73 | #794 | 66.3 |
| 1920 | 62 | #868 | 58.3 |
| 1919 | 44 | #1,028 | 44.9 |
| 1918 | 42 | #1,046 | 41.4 |
| 1917 | 46 | #950 | 49.7 |
| 1916 | 45 | #959 | 50.6 |
| 1915 | 50 | #872 | 58.9 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,363 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,190 | 37.1 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,674 | 23.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hiroshi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hiroshi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hiroshi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hiroshi, and how old are they?
An estimated 497 Americans named Hiroshi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,778 people named Hiroshi (13 women and girls, 1,765 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 493 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hiroshi born?
The states with the most babies named Hiroshi are California, Hawaii and Washington, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 482 | not ranked | 5.0× |
| Hawaii | 453 | not ranked | 70.7× |
| Washington | 39 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Hiroshi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hiroshi is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1912 it was given 70.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hiroshi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hiroshi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hiroshi and names like it
- Compare Hiroshi and KiyoshiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHiroshi peaked in 1924.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hiroshi since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Hiroshi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Hiroshi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hiroshi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.