Given name & surname
Hitomi
“one who has beautiful eyes”
Hitomi is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “one who has beautiful eyes.”
Original Japanese妃登美
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who has beautiful eyes.”
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 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hitomi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 113
- 0 boys · 113 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 12 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 girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,014 as a first name in 2020; 104 as a surname in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hitomi’s family of names
Hitomi has a related form in Hitomea. Hitomi has a related form in Hitomee. Hitomi has a related form in Hitomey.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hitomi
- Hitomi ObaraJapanese sport wrestler (1981–2025)
- Hitomi YoshizawaJapanese former female singer and former talent (1985-)
- Kinue HitomiJapanese athlete (1907–1931)
- Hitomi ShimataniJapanese singer (1980-)
- HitomiJapanese singerborn 1976
- Hitomi KaneharaJapanese writerborn 1983
- Hitomi NabatameJapanese voice actressborn 1976
- Hitomi HondaJapanese singer and actressborn 2001
- Hitomi HaradaJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1987
Characters named Hitomi: Hitomi (Dead or Alive).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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