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Chihiro

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Chihiro has been given to 116 babies in the U.S. since 1989. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Chihiro, 2022

1 in 564,000

Chihiro over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chihiro: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Chihiro means

Chihiro is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include thousand, fathom, armspan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chihiro is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕi.çi.ɾo̞/ for Chihiro.

Origin, language, and formation

Chihiro is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Chihiro comes through Japanese ちひろ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Chihiro is pronounced /ʃi.i.ʁo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 116 girls were recorded with the name Chihiro between 1989 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,619 in 2007.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chihiro?

Chihiro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chihiro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chihiro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chihiros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chihiro was born before 2001 — so the typical Chihiro is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
116
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Chihiro rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (14)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,619
2007

Where Chihiro is used

Across 1910–2025, Chihiro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chihiro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chihiro around the world

Where Chihiro ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chihiro by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,619
2007
Peak year
2007
14 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
116
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Chihiro

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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