Given name
Chihiro
Chihiro is a unisex given name from Japanese. It is used in English and French.
Original Japanese茅紘
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chihiro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 116
- 0 boys · 116 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 477 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chihiro’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Chihiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ちひろ. In French usage, Chihiro was borrowed from the Japanese form ちひろ. In Japanese usage, Chihiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千博.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 10
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 茅紘original script · Japanese
- 千紘original script · Japanese
- 千洋original script · Japanese
- 千博original script · Japanese
- 千瑞original script · Japanese
- 千裕original script · Japanese
- 千弘original script · Japanese
- ちひろoriginal script · Japanese
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People named Chihiro
- Chihiro OnitsukaJapanese singer-songwriterborn 1980
- Chihiro IgarashiJapanese swimmerborn 1995
- Chihiro YonekuraJapanese singer-songwriterborn 1972
- Chihiro SuzukiJapanese voice actorborn 1977
- Chihiro MatobaJapanese association football playerborn 1980
- Chihiro IshidaJapanese association football playerborn 2001
- Chihiro OtsukaJapanese actressborn 1986
- Chihiro AmanoJapanese film director (1982-)
- Chihiro AnaiJapanese singerborn 1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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