Given name
Hideo
“a superior man”
Hideo is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “a superior man.”
Original Japanese栄男
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a superior man.”
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 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hideo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 805
- 805 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 62 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 6 in 1944. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 62 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 472 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.
Hideo’s family of names
Hideo has a related form in Hideyo. Hideo has a related form in Hydeo. In Japanese usage, Hideo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ひでお.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 14
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hideo
- Hideo HashimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1979
- Hideo KojimaJapanese video game designer (born 1963)
- Hideo ShinojimaJapanese association football player (1910–1975)
- Hideo SakaiJapanese association football player (1909–1996)
- Hideo NakataJapanese film directorborn 1961
- Hideo ŌshimaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1980
- Hideo TanakaJapanese association football playerborn 1983
- Hideo ItokawaJapanese aerospace engineer (1912-1999)
- Hideo YoshizawaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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