Hideo

Where Hideo comes from

Borrowed from Japanese ひでお (Hideo).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hideo
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,589 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1925
    Peak, #843
    62 babies named Hideo — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1928
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,323.
  4. 1963
    Hideo Kojima born
    Japanese video game designer
  5. 1979
    Hideo Hashimoto born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Hideo Hashimoto · Japanese association football player, born 1979
  • Hideo Kojima · Japanese video game designer, born 1963
  • Hideo Shinojima · Japanese association football player, 1910–1975
  • Hideo Sakai · Japanese association football player, 1909–1996
  • Hideo Nakata · Japanese film director, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.