Hitomi

given name · Japanese · Latin script

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

Hitomi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan1 in 1.1K
  • USUnited States1 in 330K
  • HKHong Kong1 in 69K

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

≈1.2K

across 5 countries

Sources
132

62K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 330K

United States

Meaning & origin

‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Hitomi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan#6364,16558K rec.Hitomi132
US United States1,0072.8K rec.1 in 330K1KHitomi122
BR Brazil1751 in 1.2M175
CA Canada136150 rec.Hitomi25
PH Philippines8154 rec.Hitomi14
GB United Kingdom7462 rec.listedHitomi19
HK Hong Kong5449 rec.Hitomi11
PE Peru4522 rec.Hitomi11
BO Bolivia363 rec.Hitomi2
MY Malaysia3229 rec.Hitomi13
RU Russia2522 rec.Hitomi10
SE Sweden162 rec.1 in 638K163

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

Languages

  • Japanese67K84%
  • Portuguese5.1K6%
  • English4.7K6%
  • Spanish8391%
  • French2861%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Japanese67,27384%
Portuguese5,1226%
English4,7466%
Spanish8391%
French2861%

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

Hitomi is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name135 records spelled Hitomi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ฮิโตมิ, ฮโตม

48 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

051015199020002010202012 · 1994

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Hitomi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1985–2023
Yearrecords
19857
19865
19876
199011
19915
19926
19937
199412
19957
19977
19986
20015
20036
20045
20076
20117
20235

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)17 years between 1985–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1960198020002020Hitomi Kobayashi, b. 1965Hitomi Shiraishi, b. 1971hitomi, b. 1976Hitomi Mieno, b. 1977Hitomi Yaida, b. 1978Hitomi Shimatani, b. 1980Hitomi Kanehara, b. 1983Hitomi Yoshizawa, b. 1985Nanami Sakuraba, b. 1992Hitomi Honda, b. 2001

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 26 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Hitomi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#12,315
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)643#13,578
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022175
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)167#15,885
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)166#27,903
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)148#29,976
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960138
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000107#142,819
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010104#156,044
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)195073
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)195065
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)194044

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 91 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hitomi?
We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Hitomi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Hitomi have the most bearers?
Hitomi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled hitomi.
How common is Hitomi compared with other names?
In Japan, Hitomi is the 63rd most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
Is Hitomi a male or female name?
Hitomi is a female 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 Hitomi mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes.
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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, “Hitomi” — the 63rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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