Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi is a boy's name that peaked in 1923, when it was the 835th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 400 Kiyoshis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kiyoshi boys named Kiyoshi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,241
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 835th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 15 / 1,226
How old the living Kiyoshis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,241 babies given the name since 1910, about 400 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 γγγ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kiyoshis
- Kiyoshi Tomizawa (born 1943)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi ItΕ (1915–2008)Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa (born 1955)Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic
- Kiyoshi Okuma (born 1964)Japanese association football player and manager
- Kiyoshi Shiga (1871–1957)Japanese physician
- Kiyoshi Nakamura (born 1971)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi Saito (born 1982)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi Tanabe (born 1940)Japanese boxer
People named Kiyoshi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kiyoshi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kiyoshi is most concentrated in Hawaii (168.5×), California (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Kiyoshi peaked:
Related names
Kiyoshi 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.