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Hiromy vs Hiroshi

American parents have registered 1,565 Hiroshis since 1880, against 40 Hiromys. Hiroshi is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hiromy against Hiroshi, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hiromy Hiroshi

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 85 years in which either name was published, Hiroshi for 82 years and Hiromy for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Hiromy Hiroshi
Total US births 401,565
Most in one year 2081
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 40500
Median age today 2019
Peak year 20041924
Best rank 5,969th girls737th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked9,714th
First recorded 20041912
Girls / boys 40 / 00 / 1,565

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hiromy and Hiroshi.