Hayato

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Intrepidez, audacia, valentía

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/həjɑːtəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hayato is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 638K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 929K
  • USUnited States1 in 967K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

344 people, 2020

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 638K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Intrepidez, audacia, valentía

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hayato 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.

Where Hayato is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3441 in 967K337Hayato78
BR Brazil211 in 10M82—1
PL Poland171 in 2.3M17——
SE Sweden161 in 638K16——
FI Finland61 in 929K30——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

344 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hayato is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Häyätö, Häÿätö, Háyàto, Hãýàťô, Hâýàtò

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Håyato

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Hayato Ikeda, b. 1899Hayato Tani, b. 1946Hayato Date, b. 1962Hayato Sakurai, b. 1975Hayato Ikeda, b. 1986Hayato Ichihara, b. 1987Hayato Sakamoto, b. 1988Hayato Ikegaya, b. 1992Hayato Sumino, b. 1995Hayato Sano, b. 1998

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalこんにちは、HayatoさんHi Hayato, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Hayato
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020337#26,868
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#12,236
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#12,701
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202221—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—21#120,190
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—20#49,969
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202617#7,169
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#6,807
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#28,077
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200813—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201712—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201112—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Hayato mean, and where does it come from?
Intrepidez, audacia, valentía Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
How do you pronounce Hayato?
A machine transcription gives /həjɑːtəʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
Is Hayato a male or female name?
Hayato 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 Hayato have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 344 people named Hayato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hayato.
Where is Hayato most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hayato is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 638 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hayato?
In the United States, the national register counted 344 people named Hayato in 2020, about 1 in 967 thousand residents.

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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, “Hayato”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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