Hisao
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hisao has been given to 147 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1922, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Hisao, 1932
1 in 352,000
Hisao over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Hisao?
Hisao had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1932
- 1 in 352,000
- 6 of 2,111,250 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 174,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1932
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 243,902 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hisao sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 243,902 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hisao. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hisaos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hisao was born before 1924 — so the typical Hisao is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 69.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 69.4% of all recorded uses (102).
Is Hisao 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 1922 (17)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Hisao
Hisao is not the most common spelling — Hiram is, with 34.4% against Hisao's 0.35%.
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 Hisao is used
Across 1910–2025, Hisao was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 183,663 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 7,143
- 2California1 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. Hisao has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hisao around the world
Where Hisao 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.
- France2013–2025#6,699in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Hisao by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hisao
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hisao
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.