Kiyoshi
Kiyoshi was the 8618th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 9 babies. Its best year was 1923, when it ranked 838th with 66 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 4,544 places. More babies were named Kiyoshi in the 1920s than in any other decade.
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- Rank in 2025
- #8,618 boys, up 1,521 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 9boys
- Girls and boys
- 9% girls, 91% boys2021–2025
- Peak year
- 192366 babies
- Total since 1880
- 1,241babies recorded
Kiyoshi popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Rank (boys) | Babies (girls) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | #8,618 | — | 9 |
| 2020 | — | #10,139 | — | 7 |
| 2010 | — | #6,918 | — | 12 |
| 2000 | — | #9,780 | — | 6 |
| 1990 | #14,121 | #8,871 | 5 | 5 |
| 1980 | — | — | — | — |
| 1970 | — | #5,113 | — | 5 |
| 1960 | — | — | — | — |
| 1950 | — | — | — | — |
| 1940 | — | — | — | — |
| 1930 | — | #1,629 | — | 21 |
| 1920 | — | #955 | — | 53 |
| 1910 | — | #1,731 | — | 5 |
| 1900 | — | — | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — | — | — |
How popular is Kiyoshi, counting every spelling?
Kiyoshi has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Kiyoshi?
9 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Kiyoshi (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Kiyoshi born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 930 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Kiyoshi.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Kiyoshi?
About 400 people born in the US named Kiyoshi are alive today, with a median age of 20; half are between 11 and 32. That makes Kiyoshi mostly worn by children and young adults.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
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Questions about the name Kiyoshi
How popular is the name Kiyoshi?
Kiyoshi was the 8618th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 9 babies. Its best year was 1923, when it ranked 838th with 66 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 4,544 places. More babies were named Kiyoshi in the 1920s than in any other decade.
Is Kiyoshi a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, 9% girls, 91% boys given the name Kiyoshi in the US.