Hiroshi

Where Hiroshi comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ひろし (Hiroshi).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hiroshi
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #1,619 among boys, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #737
    81 babies named Hiroshi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,125.
  4. 1960
    Hiroshi Amano born
    Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
  5. 1989
    Hiroshi Kiyotake born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Hiroshi Amano · Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics, born 1960
  • Hiroshi Kiyotake · Japanese association football player, born 1989
  • Hiroshi Nanami · Japanese association football player and manager, born 1972
  • Hiroshi Katayama · Japanese association football player, born 1940
  • Hiroshi Ninomiya · Japanese association football player and manager, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.