Kiyoshi
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 98.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1923 · 66 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,226since 1910
Kiyoshi over time
Rank among boys' names. Kiyoshi has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | — | #8,300 | 9 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2020 | — | #9,554 | 7 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,840 | 8 | |
| 2016 | — | #12,185 | 5 | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,048 | 11 | |
| 2013 | — | #6,241 | 13 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,158 | 9 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,522 | 10 | |
| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #9,912 | 5 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
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| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,872 | 14 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,396 | 10 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,121 | 12 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,644 | 18 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,651 | 19 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,693 | 18 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,602 | 21 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,793 | 18 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,293 | 31 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,163 | 38 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,010 | 47 | |
| 1925 | — | #858 | 60 | |
| 1924 | — | #937 | 56 | |
| 1923 | — | #835 | 66 | |
| 1922 | — | #928 | 56 | |
| 1921 | — | #962 | 53 | |
| 1920 | — | #947 | 53 | |
| 1919 | — | #918 | 53 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,035 | 42 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,078 | 38 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,028 | 39 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,159 | 31 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,492 | 17 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
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| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kiyoshi! It came in at #1,589, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kiyoshi
- 744 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #8,243)
- 1,311 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,243)
- 3,843 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #8,243)
- Biggest jump: 117 spots in 1919 (#1,035 → #918)
- Biggest drop: 152 spots in 1926 (#858 → #1,010)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1923 at #835 (66 births)
- Births halved by 1928, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1919–1925
- Highest: 1 in 16,608 boys born in 1923 were named Kiyoshi (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.0% of all boys named Kiyoshi (478) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 241 | #918 (1919) | #1,369 |
| 1920s | 478 | #835 (1923) | #1,073 |
| 1930s | 128 | #1,602 (1930) | #2,040 |
| 1940s | 12 | #2,964 (1943) | #3,235 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 25 | #4,403 (1979) | #4,746 |
| 1980s | 32 | #5,332 (1986) | #5,955 |
| 1990s | 68 | #4,022 (1996) | #7,686 |
| 2000s | 87 | #6,522 (2002) | #8,076 |
| 2010s | 99 | #6,241 (2013) | #8,138 |
| 2020s | 56 | #6,698 (2021) | #8,179 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kiyoshi in 1921
Top boys' names in 1921
More about 1921
boys
1,101,449 boys got a published name in 1921; 1 in 20,782 of them was named Kiyoshi, which outranked 80.7% of the 4,985 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).