Given name
Hajime
“of the beginning”
Hajime is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “of the beginning.”
Original Japanese一
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “of the beginning.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hajime through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 134
- 134 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 15 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 boys is 5 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 292 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.
Hajime’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Hajime is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 一. In Japanese usage, Hajime is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 元. In Japanese usage, Hajime is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 初.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 7
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hajime
- Hajime MoriyasuJapanese association football player and coachborn 1968
- Hajime HosogaiJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Hajime IsayamaJapanese manga artistborn 1986
- Takuboku IshikawaJapanese poet (1886-1912)
- Hajime IshiiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1959
- Saitō HajimeJapanese swordsman (1844–1915)
- Hajime TanabeJapanese philosopher (1885–1962)
- Hajime EtoJapanese association football player and managerborn 1973
- Hajime SorayamaJapanese illustrator (born 1947)
Characters named Hajime: Todoroki Hajime (Japanese Virtual YouTuber).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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