Given name
Masahiro
Masahiro is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Tagalog.
Original Japanese雅博
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Masahiro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 63 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 9 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 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 644 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.
Masahiro’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Masahiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of まさひろ. In English usage, Masahiro was borrowed from the Japanese form まさひろ. In Japanese usage, Masahiro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 将大.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 23
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 雅博in another script · Japanese
- 正大in another script · Japanese
- 正博in another script · Japanese
- 昌弘in another script · Japanese
- 昌広in another script · Japanese
- 将大in another script · Japanese
- 真尋original script · Japanese
- 正洋original script · Japanese
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- 正裕original script · Japanese
- 真博original script · Japanese
- 昌浩original script · Japanese
- 正浩original script · Japanese
- 正弘original script · Japanese
- 雅弘original script · Japanese
- まさひろoriginal script · Japanese
- 正広original script · Japanese
- 正宏original script · Japanese
- 將大original script · Japanese
- 政博original script · Japanese
- 昌宏original script · Japanese
- 雅裕original script · Japanese
- 真大original script · Japanese
- 真宏original script · Japanese
People named Masahiro
- Masahiro FukudaJapanese association football playerborn 1966
- Masahiro AndoJapanese association football playerborn 1972
- Masahiro HamazakiJapanese association football player (1940–2011)
- Masahiro EndoJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Masahiro SukigaraJapanese association football playerborn 1966
- Masahiro KogaJapanese association football playerborn 1978
- Masahiro SakuraiJapanese video game designer (born 1970)
- Masahiro WadaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1965
- Masahiro OkamotoJapanese association football playerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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