Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Hideki isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hideki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 9 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 1982. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 460 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.
Hideki’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Hideki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 秀喜. In Japanese usage, Hideki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 秀旗. In Japanese usage, Hideki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 秀樹.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 10
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- Hidekylikely spelling
- 秀樹original script · Japanese
- ひできoriginal script · Japanese
- 英機original script · Japanese
- 英輝original script · Japanese
- 英貴original script · Japanese
- 秀旗original script · Japanese
- 秀喜original script · Japanese
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People named Hideki
- Hideki YukawaJapanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
- Hideki TojoJapanese general and politician (1884–1948)
- Hideki ShirakawaJapanese scientist (1936–2026)
- Hideki MaedaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1954
- Hideki KatsuraJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Hideki NagaiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1971
- Hideki UchidateJapanese association football playerborn 1974
- Hideki SaharaJapanese association football playerborn 1978
- Hideki IshigeJapanese association football playerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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