Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi is a boy's name that peaked in 1923, when it was the 835th most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as Japanese. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 400 Kiyoshis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kiyoshi boys named Kiyoshi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,241
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 1923
- Best rank
- 835th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1910
- Girls / boys
- 15 / 1,226
How old the living Kiyoshis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,241 babies given the name since 1910, about 400 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Borrowed from Japanese γγγ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kiyoshis
- Kiyoshi Tomizawa (born 1943)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi ItΕ (1915–2008)Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa (born 1955)Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic
- Kiyoshi Okuma (born 1964)Japanese association football player and manager
- Kiyoshi Shiga (1871–1957)Japanese physician
- Kiyoshi Nakamura (born 1971)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi Saito (born 1982)Japanese association football player
- Kiyoshi Tanabe (born 1940)Japanese boxer
People named Kiyoshi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kiyoshi is most common
Across the country Kiyoshi is recorded 0.23 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Kiyoshis are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1923
The most popular boys’ names the year Kiyoshi peaked:
Related names
Kiyoshi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.