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Eiji

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Eiji has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Eiji, 2022

1 in 564,000

Eiji over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eiji: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Eiji means

Eiji 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 excellent, fine, glory, honour, flourish, prosper, two, govern, administer.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Eiji is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /e̞ː.ʑi/ for Eiji.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 boys were recorded with the name Eiji between 1927 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #4,130 in 1929.

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.

How common is Eiji?

Eiji 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 boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eiji sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Eiji. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eijis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eiji was born before 2013 — so the typical Eiji is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
50
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Choose a decade

2010s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Eiji 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,130
1929

Spellings of Eiji

Eiji is not the most common spelling — Eli is, with 88.8% against Eiji's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eiji is used

Across 1910–2025, Eiji was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 113,262 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Eiji has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eiji around the world

Where Eiji 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.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    2010–2025
    #3,189
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Eiji by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,130
1929
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Eiji

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

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Sibling names for Eiji

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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