Hiroshi
About 1,565 American babies have been named Hiroshi since 1912, most of them around 1924. In 2025 it ranked 9,714th. About 500 Hiroshis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hiroshi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,565
- Estimated living today
- 500
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 1924
- Best rank
- 737th
- Rank in 2025
- 9,714th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Hiroshis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,565 babies given the name since 1912, about 500 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Borrowed from Japanese ひろし.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hiroshis
- Hiroshi Amano (born 1960)Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Hiroshi Kiyotake (born 1989)Japanese association football player
- Hiroshi Nanami (born 1972)Japanese association football player and manager
- Hiroshi Katayama (born 1940)Japanese association football player
- Hiroshi Ninomiya (born 1937)Japanese association football player and manager
- Hiroshi Kanazawa (died 1999)Japanese association football player
- Hiroshi Yoshida (born 1958)Japanese association football player
- Hiroshi Soejima (born 1959)Japanese association football player and manager
People named Hiroshi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hiroshi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hiroshi is most concentrated in Hawaii (149.1×), California (4.9×), Washington (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1924
The most popular boys’ names the year Hiroshi peaked:
Hiroshi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hiroshi | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Hiroshi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.