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Hinako

Girls' name

From Japanese 日菜子; literal meaning unconfirmed

Hinako has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2000, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hinako, 2016

1 in 734,000

Hinako over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hinako: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese 日菜子; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Hinako means

Hinako is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hinako is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Hinako comes through Japanese 日菜子.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 girls were recorded with the name Hinako between 1997 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #12,264 in 2000.

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 Hinako?

Hinako had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hinako 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hinako. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hinakos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hinako was born before 2005 — so the typical Hinako is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Hinako 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (7)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,264
2000

Spellings of Hinako

Hinako is not the most common spelling — Hina is, with 94.9% against Hinako's 5.1%.

  • Hina94.9%744
  • Hinako5.1%40

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.

Hinako around the world

Where Hinako 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
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Hinako 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
—
Best rank ever
#12,264
2000
Peak year
2000
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hinako

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

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Sibling names for Hinako

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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