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Hiroshi

#10,059 in 2025Boys' name

Tolerant, generous

Hiroshi has been given to 1,565 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #10,059 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Hiroshi, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hiroshi: meaning, origin, and history

Tolerant, generous

Japanese

What Hiroshi means

Hiroshi means “tolerant, generous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hiroshi is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Hiroshi comes through Japanese ひろし.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,565 boys were recorded with the name Hiroshi between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 1924; its best national rank was #740 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,423 in 2020 to #10,059 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,459 in 2015 to #10,059 in 2025.

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 Hiroshi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,059
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hiroshi 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hiroshi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hiroshis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hiroshi was born before 1927 — so the typical Hiroshi is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
483
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1920s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (611).

Is Hiroshi 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
−2,096
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,636
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,600
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.6%
Peak was 1924 (81)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#740
1924

Spellings of Hiroshi

Hiroshi is the most-used spelling, taking 56.1% of the 2,791 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Hiroshi is used

Across 1910–2025, Hiroshi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,250 boys, against 1 in 34,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

080 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,250
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 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. Hiroshi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hiroshi around the world

Where Hiroshi 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
    1987–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Hiroshi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,636
Best rank ever
#740
1924
Peak year
1924
81 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,565
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Hiroshi

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

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Sibling names for Hiroshi

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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