Hiroyuki
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hiroyuki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Widespread happiness’.
- JPJapan≈1 in 436(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 420K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 436 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Widespread happiness’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hiroyuki counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #7 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 436 | — | Hiroyuki | 173 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Hiroyuki | 18 |
| US United States | — | 792 | 1 in 420K | 792 | Hiroyuki | 196 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 381K | listed | Hiroyuki | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 149 | 1 in 1.4M | 173 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 1 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hiroyuki | 23 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the hanks-first-names-2001 register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hiroyuki Iwakib. 1932JPJapanese conductor and essayist (1932-2006)
- Hiroyuki Hosodab. 1944JPJapanese politician (1944–2023)
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawab. 1950JPJapanese actor (1950-2025)
- Hiroyuki Watanabeb. 1955JPJapanese actor (1955−2022)
- Hiroyuki Sanadab. 1960JPJapanese actor
- Hiro Matsushitab. 1961JPnot in their usual nameJapanese businessman and former racing driver
- Hiroyuki Tamakoshib. 1970JPJapanese manga artist (1970-)
- Hiroyuki Nishimurab. 1976JPJapanese internet entrepreneur
- Steve Aokib. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican DJ and music producer (born 1971)
- Hiroyuki Sawanob. 1980JPJapanese composer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 792 | #14,763 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 173 | #12,958 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 149 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149 | #31,238 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 130 | #31,934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 128 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 90 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 55 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 38 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 35 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hiroyuki mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Widespread happiness’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Hiroyuki a male or female name?
- Hiroyuki is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hiroyuki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 thousand people named Hiroyuki in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hiroyuki.
- How common is the name Hiroyuki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 792 people named Hiroyuki in 2020, about 1 in 420 thousand residents.
- How common is Hiroyuki compared with other names?
- In Japan, Hiroyuki is the 7th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiroyukiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hiroyuki” — the 7th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.