Given name
Hayato
Hayato is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Czech.
Original Japanese颯斗
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hayato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 247
- 247 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −45%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 344 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.
Hayato’s family of names
In Czech usage, Hayato was borrowed from the Japanese form はやと. In Japanese usage, Hayato is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 健人. In Japanese usage, Hayato is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 勇人.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hayato
- Hayato IkedaPrime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 19641899–1965
- Hayato SasakiJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Hayato HashimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1981
- Hayato OkanakaJapanese association football playerborn 1968
- Hayato YanoJapanese association football playerborn 1980
- Hayato NakamaJapanese association football playerborn 1992
- Hayato MichiueJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Hayato NukuiJapanese association football playerborn 1996
- Hayato NakamuraJapanese association football playerborn 1991
Characters named Hayato: Hayato Gokudera (Reborn!).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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