Hiroshi
Hiroshi is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 740th, in 1924.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192481 births
- Best rank
- #740in 1924
- Since 1912
- 1,558people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,558 boys have been named Hiroshi in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 81 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 39%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hiroshi | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 276 | |
| 1920s | 611 | |
| 1930s | 163 | |
| 1940s | 32 | |
| 1960s | 31 | |
| 1970s | 39 | |
| 1980s | 58 | |
| 1990s | 79 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 166 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Hiroshi was the 740th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Hiroshi
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kiyoshipeak 1923
- Yoshiopeak 1921
- Seymourpeak 1924
- Luvernepeak 1924
- Nunziopeak 1923
- Cosimopeak 1927
- Fernandpeak 1923
- Masaopeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.