Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hikaru through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 187
- 169 boys · 18 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,061 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,061 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 374 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.
Hikaru’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Hikaru is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 光. In Japanese usage, Hikaru is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 光瑠. In Japanese usage, Hikaru is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 日佳瑠.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hikaru
- Hikaru NakamuraAmerican chess playerborn 1987
- Hikaru UtadaJapanese-American singer-songwriterborn 1983
- Hikaru NaomotoJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Hikaru MitaJapanese association football playerborn 1981
- Hikaru OzawaJapanese association football playerborn 1988
- Hikaru HironiwaJapanese association football playerborn 1985
- Hikaru KubaJapanese association football playerborn 1990
- Hikaru FujishimaJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Hikaru ShidaJapanese professional wrestler and actressborn 1988
Characters named Hikaru: Hikaru Sulu (Star Trek), Hikaru Matsuyama (Captain Tsubasa).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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