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Takahiro

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Takahiro has been given to 104 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 1991, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Takahiro, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takahiro: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Takahiro means

Takahiro 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 valuable, filial piety, big, great, prosperous.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Takahiro is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.kä.çi.ɾo̞/ for Takahiro.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Takahiro between 1985 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,444 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.

How common is Takahiro?

Takahiro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takahiro 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takahiro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takahiros were born

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

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
83.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
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1990s — 83.7% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Takahiro 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (13)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,444
1991

Where Takahiro is used

Across 1910–2025, Takahiro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,796,049 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Takahiro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takahiro around the world

Where Takahiro 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
    1991–1991
    #3,089
    in 1991

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

Takahiro 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
#4,444
1991
Peak year
1991
13 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Takahiro

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

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Sibling names for Takahiro

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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