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Hisashi

Boys' name

Eaves (of a roof), through ひさし

Hisashi has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1926, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Hisashi, 1933

1 in 250,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hisashi: meaning, origin, and history

Eaves (of a roof), through ひさし

Japanese

What Hisashi means

Hisashi belongs to the name family reached through Hisashi → ひさし. Its meaning is “eaves (of a roof)”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hisashi is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Hisashi comes through Japanese ひさし.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ひさし.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Hisashi is pronounced /hiˈsaʃi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 129 boys were recorded with the name Hisashi between 1916 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1926; its best national rank was #2,129 in 1926.

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 Hisashi?

Hisashi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1933, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1933
1 in 250,000
8 of 1,999,415 births
Among boys only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1933
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
173,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hisashi 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 1933 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 173,237 children born in 1933 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hisashi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hisashis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hisashi was born before 1924 — so the typical Hisashi is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Hisashi 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 1926 (15)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,129
1926

Spellings of Hisashi

Hisashi is not the most common spelling — Hiroshi is, with 92.4% against Hisashi's 7.6%.

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 Hisashi is used

Across 1910–2025, Hisashi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 299,984 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 10,000
  2. 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. Hisashi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hisashi 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
#2,129
1926
Peak year
1926
15 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1933
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hisashi

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

KakashiHitoshiMasashiHishamHisaoAtsushiTadashiYoshiSatoshiKiyoshiHiroshiHishaamRashiMasayoshiTashiTaishiTakeshiKashiMusashiTakashiHrishiTsuyoshiRushiKrishi

Sibling names for Hisashi

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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