Hisako
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hisako is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘Long-lived child’.
- USUnited States1 in 444K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 850K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hisako itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 444K (inferred from the name graph)
749 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Long-lived child’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hisako 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 749 | 1 in 444K | 749 | Hisako | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 189 | 1 in 1.1M | 299 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Hisako | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
749 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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hisako Harab. 1909JPJapanese actress (1909-2005)
- Hisako Koyamab. 1916JPJapanese solar observer
- Hisako Kyōdab. 1935JPJapanese actress and voice actress
- Hisako Ōishib. 1936JPJapanese politician (1936-2012)
- Hisako Higuchib. 1945JPprofessional golfer
- Hisako, Princess Takamadob. 1953JPJapanese princess; widow of Norihito, Prince Takamado
- Hisako Mandab. 1958JPJapanese actress
- Akira Hokutob. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese female talent, businessman, entertainment promoter, YouTuber and former professional wrestler (1967-)
- Hisako Shiratab. 1982JPJapanese actress
- Hisako Kanemotob. 1987JPJapanese voice 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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 39 | #124,653 |
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 Hisako mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Long-lived child’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Hisako a male or female name?
- Hisako 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.
- In which country does Hisako have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 749 people named Hisako, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hisako.
- Where is Hisako most common?
- Hisako is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 444 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hisako?
- In the United States, the national register counted 749 people named Hisako in 2020, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hisakoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Hisako”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.