Names / Boy names
Hiro
Current rank
#2,902
holding steady
All-time peak
#1,907
in 2016
First recorded
1915
in U.S. data
Children named
917
since 1915
Popularity over time
Annual U.S. children given the name · Peak #1,907 in 2016 · Source: Social Security Administration
Meaning & background
Hiro first appears in American naming records in 1915, where it reads as a boys' name. It now sits outside the national top 1,000, which keeps it uncommon. Only about 917 children have carried it, making it genuinely rare.