Sho
The boy's name Sho has been in the national records since 1923, with 461 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 440 Shos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Sho
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 461
- Estimated living today
- 440
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 3,058th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1923
How old the living Shos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 461 babies given the name since 1923, about 440 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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.
Notable Shos
- Sho Sasaki (born 1989)Japanese association football player
- Shō Itō (born 1988)Japanese association football player
- Shō Tai (1843–1901)last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom
- Sho Inagaki (born 1991)Japanese association football player
- Shō Shin (1465–1526)3rd king of the Ryukyu Kingdom
- Sho Kosugi (born 1948)Japanese actor
- Sho Sakurai (born 1982)Japanese singer, songwriter and rapper
- Sho Kagami (born 1994)Japanese association football player
People named Sho with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sho is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sho is most concentrated in California (8.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular boys’ names the year Sho peaked:
Sho elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Sho | 7 | 2,501st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Sho against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.