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Hitomi

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Hitomi has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1994, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Hitomi, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hitomi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Hitomi means

Hitomi is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include pupil of the eye.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hitomi is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /çi.to̞.mi/ for Hitomi.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Japanese ひとみ (Hitomi), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hitomi (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hitomi is used in English and French. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Hitomi is pronounced /i.tɔ.mi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 girls were recorded with the name Hitomi between 1985 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1994; its best national rank was #7,263 in 1994.

How common is Hitomi?

Hitomi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hitomi 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hitomi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hitomis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hitomi was born before 1994 — so the typical Hitomi is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
113
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Hitomi 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 1994 (12)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,263
1994

Spellings of Hitomi

Hitomi is not the most common spelling — Tomi is, with 43.7% against Hitomi's 1.8%.

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.

Hitomi around the world

Where Hitomi 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.

  • France
    2015–2015
    #6,366
    in 2015

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hitomi 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
#7,263
1994
Peak year
1994
12 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hitomi

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

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Sibling names for Hitomi

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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