Given name
Shinji
Shinji is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in French.
Original Japanese信治
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shinji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 10 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 7 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 444 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.
Shinji’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Shinji is a Roman-alphabet rendering of しんじ. In Japanese usage, Shinji is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 伸二. In Japanese usage, Shinji is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 伸次.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 22
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 信治original script · Japanese
- 紳司original script · Japanese
- 新司original script · Japanese
- 信司original script · Japanese
- 伸二original script · Japanese
- しんじoriginal script · Japanese
- 慎史original script · Japanese
- 真治original script · Japanese
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- 信次original script · Japanese
- 慎治original script · Japanese
- 新治original script · Japanese
- 慎次original script · Japanese
- 伸治original script · Japanese
- 伸次original script · Japanese
- 真司original script · Japanese
- 信二original script · Japanese
- 慎二original script · Japanese
- 真二original script · Japanese
- 慎司original script · Japanese
- 真児original script · Japanese
- 新二original script · Japanese
- 紳路original script · Japanese
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shinji
- Shinji KagawaJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Shinji OkazakiJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Shinji OnoJapanese association football playerborn 1979
- Shinji TanakaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1960
- Shinji MuraiJapanese association football playerborn 1979
- Shinji JojoJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Shinji OtsukaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1975
- Shinji MikamiJapanese video game designerborn 1965
- Shinji MakinoJapanese association football playerborn 1976
Characters named Shinji: Shinji Ikari (the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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