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Kiyoshi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #838 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #838 in 1923; #8,618 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiyoshi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,618 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #838.
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Kiyoshi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #838 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 66 (1923).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Kiyoshi, making it the 8,618th most common boys’ name of the year, up 858 places from #9,476 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 boys named Kiyoshi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #838, reached in 1923. That year also had the most boys given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #13,162 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiyoshi in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 1,241 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 478 babies named Kiyoshi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 93 US boys were named Kiyoshi; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,618 |
| 2024 | — | — | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,467 | 11 | #7,538 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,682 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,920 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,139 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,623 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,334 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #13,332 |
| 2015 | — | — | 5 | #13,162 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,326 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,465 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,563 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,828 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,918 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,038 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,005 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #6,889 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,429 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,749 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,744 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,580 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,818 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,578 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,780 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,867 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,124 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,773 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,693 | 16 | #4,113 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,665 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,328 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,206 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,993 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,946 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,121 | 5 | #8,871 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,955 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,882 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,570 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,683 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,883 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,647 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,461 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,148 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,113 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,097 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,565 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,048 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,931 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,464 |
| 1934 | — | — | 12 | #2,187 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,681 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,689 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,745 |
| 1930 | — | — | 21 | #1,629 |
| 1929 | — | — | 18 | #1,833 |
| 1928 | — | — | 31 | #1,312 |
| 1927 | — | — | 38 | #1,170 |
| 1926 | — | — | 47 | #1,014 |
| 1925 | — | — | 60 | #863 |
| 1924 | — | — | 56 | #940 |
| 1923 | — | — | 66 | #838 |
| 1922 | — | — | 56 | #934 |
| 1921 | — | — | 53 | #964 |
| 1920 | — | — | 53 | #955 |
| 1919 | — | — | 53 | #923 |
| 1918 | — | — | 42 | #1,049 |
| 1917 | — | — | 38 | #1,087 |
| 1916 | — | — | 39 | #1,035 |
| 1915 | — | — | 31 | #1,173 |
| 1914 | — | — | 17 | #1,529 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,386 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,820 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,731 |
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).