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Hayato

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Hayato has been given to 247 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 2008, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Hayato, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hayato: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Hayato means

Hayato 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 falcon, person.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hayato is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hä.jä.to̞/ for Hayato.

Origin, language, and formation

Hayato is used in English and Czech. Its origins include Japanese.

Hayato comes through Japanese はやと.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Hayato is pronounced [ˈɦajato].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 247 boys were recorded with the name Hayato between 1986 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,531 in 1990.

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 Hayato?

Hayato had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hayato 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hayato. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hayatos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hayato was born before 2006 — so the typical Hayato is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
247
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Hayato 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 2008 (13)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,531
1990

Where Hayato is used

Across 1910–2025, Hayato was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,089,544 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Hayato has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hayato around the world

Where Hayato 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
    1997–1997
    #2,859
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hayato 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
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Best rank ever
#5,531
1990
Peak year
2008
13 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
247
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hayato

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

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Sibling names for Hayato

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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