Hiroyuki

Boys' name

Command, esteem or abundant

Hiroyuki has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1924. 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 1989, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hiroyuki, 2017

1 in 596,000

Hiroyuki over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hiroyuki: meaning, origin, and history

Command, esteem or abundant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hiroyuki means

Hiroyuki means “command, esteem or abundant”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hiroyuki is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /çi.ɾo̞.jɨᵝ.kʲi/ for Hiroyuki.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 67 boys were recorded with the name Hiroyuki between 1924 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,777 in 1930.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Hiroyuki?

Hiroyuki had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 596,000; 6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 308,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 413,245 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hiroyuki 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hiroyuki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hiroyukis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hiroyuki was born before 1991 — so the typical Hiroyuki is around 34 today.

Median birth year: 1991; About 34 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 38.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 56; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Hiroyuki 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: —; 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 1989 (7)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 5.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,777; 1930

Hiroyuki around the world

Where Hiroyuki 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
2008–2008
#726
in 2008

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

Hiroyuki 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: #3,777; 1930
Peak year: 1989; 7 that year
First recorded: 1924
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 67
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hiroyuki

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

Hirving Takayuki Hiroaki Hiromu Tatsuki Masayuki Hiran Toshiyuki Nobuyuki Hiroto Yoshiyuki Hirsh Hiroshi Hirsch Hiren Itsuki Hiromi Hiraeth Hirwa Haruki Kazuyuki Kazuki Hiroki Yuuki

Sibling names for Hiroyuki

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

For a sister

Stephani Ashli Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette

For a brother

Elizabeth Kelsey Garrick Lauren Demario Jerrell Arron Laron

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