Shigeru
About 591 American babies have been named Shigeru since 1910, most of them around 1921. It has not appeared in the national data since 1938. About 11 Shigerus are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 92.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Shigeru
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 591
- Estimated living today
- 11
- Median age today
- 92
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,086th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1910
How old the living Shigerus are
born that year still alive today
Of the 591 babies given the name since 1910, about 11 are alive — 2 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1933 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Shigerus
- Shigeru Ishiba (born 1957)President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2024 to 2025 and Prime Minister of Japan from 2024 to 2025
- Shigeru Miyamoto (born 1952)Japanese video game designer
- Shigeru Yoshida (1878–1967)Prime minister of Japan
- Shigeru Morioka (born 1973)Japanese association football player
- Shigeru Ban (born 1957)Japanese architect
- Shigeru Sarusawa (born 1960)Japanese association football player
- Shigeru Yokotani (born 1987)Japanese association football player
- Shigeru Mizuki (1922–2015)Japanese manga artist
People named Shigeru with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Shigeru is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Shigeru is most concentrated in Hawaii (201.9×), California (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Shigeru peaked:
Related names
Shigeru against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.