Hikaru
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Hikaru is a boys' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Hikaru mean?
Japanese
A unisex given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Hikaru a girl's or a boy's name?
Hikaru is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hikaru in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Hikaru, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2006, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1992.
2025 had more boys named Hikaru than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Hikaru in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hikaru in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,530 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,834 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
Names like Hikaru
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru, Dakota, Haru, Ryu, Akari, Armani, Aarav, Dhruv, Hiro, Rishi, Arjun, Avi
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Kenzo, Ronin, Kyomi, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kiyomi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hikaru: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hikaru, updated 20 October 2026.