Given name
Hisashi
Hisashi is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese寿司
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hisashi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 129
- 129 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 15 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 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1926. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 199 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.
Hisashi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Hisashi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ひさし. In English usage, Hisashi was borrowed from the Japanese form ひさし. In Japanese usage, Hisashi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 久.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 14
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hisashi
- Hisashi KurosakiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1968
- Hisashi KatoJapanese association football player and managerborn 1956
- Hisashi KanekoJapanese association football playerborn 1959
- Hisashi TsuchidaJapanese association football playerborn 1967
- Hisashi JogoJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Hisashi KimuraJapanese astronomer (1870–1943)
- Hisashi OwadaJapanese diplomatborn 1932
- Hisashi InoueJapanese novelist, playwright, progressive intellectual, civic activist, Opponent of amending the Japanese Constitution (1934-2010)
- Hisashi Appiah TawiahJapanese association football playerborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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