Meaning not yet researched.
Hiro: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,907 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,907 in 2016; #2,902 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hiro in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,902 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #1,907.
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Hiro: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,907 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 77 (2016).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Hiro, making it the 2,902nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 796 places from #2,106 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 71 boys named Hiro in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,907, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #1,965 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hiro in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 917 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 441 babies named Hiro.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 589 US boys were named Hiro; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 77. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hiro ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,536 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Hero (1,025 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Japanese, Polynesian, Rapa Nui, Sindhi, Spanish and Tahitian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Hiro in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,536 | #1,345 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,902 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,106 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,331 |
| 2022 | — | — | 67 | #2,177 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,602 |
| 2020 | — | — | 56 | #2,376 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,437 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,591 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,200 |
| 2016 | — | — | 77 | #1,907 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,965 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,174 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,255 |
| 2012 | — | — | 29 | #3,647 |
| 2011 | — | — | 20 | #4,725 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,158 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,341 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,591 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,286 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,571 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,322 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,769 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,537 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #9,716 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,527 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,491 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,296 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,574 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).