Hitomi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hitomi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name.
- JPJapan≈1 in 695(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 328K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 45K
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
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 695 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hitomi 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 | #64 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 695 | — | Hitomi | 136 |
| US United States | — | 1,014 | 1 in 328K | 1K | Hitomi | 141 |
| BR Brazil | — | 175 | 1 in 1.2M | 175 | — | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Hitomi | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Hitomi | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Hitomi | 28 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
- Hitomi Kobayashib. 1965JPJapanese adult video actress
- Hitomi Shiraishib. 1971JPJapanese pornographic actress
- hitomib. 1976JPJapanese singer
- Hitomi Mienob. 1977JPJapanese singer and screenwriter
- Hitomi Yaidab. 1978JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Hitomi Shimatanib. 1980JPJapanese singer (1980-)
- Hitomi Kaneharab. 1983JPJapanese writer
- Hitomi Yoshizawab. 1985JPJapanese former female singer and former talent (1985-)
- Nanami Sakurabab. 1992JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
- Hitomi Hondab. 2001JPJapanese singer and actress
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,315 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 175 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 167 | #15,885 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 166 | #27,903 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 148 | #29,976 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 138 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 73 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 65 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 44 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 12 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hitomi mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Pupil’ (of the eye), given to girls with especially beautiful eyes. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Hitomi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 thousand people named Hitomi in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hitomi.
- Is Hitomi a male or female name?
- Hitomi is a female 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.
- How common is the name Hitomi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,014 people named Hitomi in 2020, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
- How common is Hitomi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Hitomi is the 64th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hitomiThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hitomi” — the 64th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.