Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Hiroaki 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 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hiroaki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 20 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 8 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 8 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 387 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.
Hiroaki’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Hiroaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ひろあき. In Japanese usage, Hiroaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 博明. In Japanese usage, Hiroaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 博昭.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 21
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 裕亮original script · Japanese
- 博昭original script · Japanese
- 宏明original script · Japanese
- 浩明original script · Japanese
- 弘明original script · Japanese
- 啓昭original script · Japanese
- 弘昭original script · Japanese
- 博明original script · Japanese
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- 裕明original script · Japanese
- 裕章original script · Japanese
- 裕昭original script · Japanese
- 広明original script · Japanese
- 宥明original script · Japanese
- 寛暁original script · Japanese
- 浩章original script · Japanese
- 拓晃original script · Japanese
- 寛明original script · Japanese
- ひろあきoriginal script · Japanese
- 敬章original script · Japanese
- 祥朗original script · Japanese
- 展明original script · Japanese
People named Hiroaki
- Hiroaki MorishimaJapanese association football playerborn 1972
- Hiroaki SatoJapanese association football player (born 1932)
- Hiroaki MatsuyamaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1967
- Hiroaki HiraokaJapanese judokaborn 1985
- Hiroaki HiraokaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1969
- Hiroaki KumonJapanese association football playerborn 1966
- Hiroaki OkunoJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Hiroaki TajimaJapanese association football playerborn 1974
- Hiroaki NambaJapanese association football playerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.