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Shohei

#8,809 in 2025Boys' name

From Japanese しょうへい; literal meaning unconfirmed

Shohei has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #8,809 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Shohei, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shohei: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese しょうへい; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Shohei means

Shohei is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shohei is used in English, Portuguese and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Shohei comes through Japanese しょうへい.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Shohei is pronounced /ˈsjohej/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Shohei between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,863 in 1991.

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 Shohei?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,809
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shohei 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shohei. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shoheis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shohei was born before 1996 — so the typical Shohei is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
74
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Choose a decade

2020s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Shohei 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
+66
Places climbed
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
69.2%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,863
1991

Spellings of Shohei

Shohei is not the most common spelling — Shyheim is, with 92.9% against Shohei's 7.1%.

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 Shohei is used

Across 1910–2025, Shohei was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Shohei has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shohei by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,863
1991
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
9

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

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Sibling names for Shohei

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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