Hiroshi

given name · Japanese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hiroshi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Abundant’, ‘widespread’.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 474◐
  • USUnited States1 in 188K
  • BOBolivia1 in 59K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.8K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
221 ●

141K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 188K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

HiroshiLatin · Japanese●169K records
히로시Hangul · Korean●7 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

‘Abundant’, ‘widespread’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hiroshi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#2152,422126K rec.——Hiroshi194
US United States—1,76513K rec.1 in 188K1.8KHiroshi221
BR Brazil—893—1 in 237K1.3K——
CA Canada—699685 rec.—1Hiroshi44
GB United Kingdom—439384 rec.—listedHiroshi38
PE Peru—357143 rec.——Hiroshi28
PH Philippines—319207 rec.——Hiroshi30
BO Bolivia#79014817 rec.——Hiroshi6
RU Russia—145145 rec.——Hiroshi15
SG Singapore—133121 rec.——Hiroshi28
IT Italy—10393 rec.——Hiroshi26
KR South Korea—757 rec.——Hiroshi12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Japanese169K76%
  • Portuguese26K12%
  • English15K7%
  • Spanish5.1K2%
  • German1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese168,56876%
Portuguese25,83412%
English14,9297%
Spanish5,1232%
German1,3271%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hiroshi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name35K records spelled Hiroshi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hîrôshî

  • Thai given name666 records spelled Hiroshi12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ฮิโรชิ, ฮิโตชิ, คิโมโต้, คิโมโต, ฮีโรชิ

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

025507510019201940196019802000202081 · 1924

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Hiroshi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
191210
191319
191420
191550
191645
191746
191842
191944
192062
192173
192261
192369
192481
192577
192650
192756
192839
192943
193024
193119
193220
193318
193417
193516
193613
193716
193811
19399
19407
19416
19438
19446
19455
19615
19636
19656
19677
19697
19708
19716
19736
19757
19767
19785
19808
19817
19827
19845
19856
198712
19888
19895
19908
199110
199212
19937
19945
19955
199612
19979
19986
19995
20026
20046
20057
200610
20087
20099
20106
201134
201230
201315
201419
201513
201611
201710
201816
201912
202013
202112
20227
202316
202410
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 84 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Hiroshi Yoshida, b. 1876Hiroshi Teshigahara, b. 1927Hiroshi Ōtake, b. 1932Hiroshi Tomihari, b. 1936Hiroshi Hara, b. 1936Hiroshi Kamayatsu, b. 1939Hiroshi Yanaka, b. 1958Hiroshi Amano, b. 1960Heath, b. 1968Hiroshi Tanahashi, b. 1976

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Hiroshi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.4K#4,129
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,202
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#8,002
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1.2K#3,262
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022893—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—886#8,934
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010868—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2000837—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990809—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980759—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970717—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960642—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 288 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hiroshi?
We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Hiroshi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Hiroshi have the most bearers?
Hiroshi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled hiroshi.
How common is Hiroshi compared with other names?
In Japan, Hiroshi is the 2nd most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Hiroshi a male or female name?
Hiroshi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Hiroshi mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Abundant’, ‘widespread’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hiroshi” — the 2nd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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