Given name
Shohei
Shohei is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Original Japaneseしょうへい
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shohei through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 74
- 74 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,813 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,813 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 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.
Shohei’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Shohei was borrowed from the Japanese form しょうへい.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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