Rankings · Reviewed July 30, 2026
Japanese Baby Name Rankings, 2022–2025
This guide explains what four annual Tamahiyo samples can—and cannot—show. It uses exact kanji-and-reading matches from JapanNames records and does not project a 2026 ranking from older data.
First, define “trend”
A rank is an observation within a named source, gender list, year, spelling, and sample. Movement across annual lists may be described only when those units remain comparable. It does not prove a nationwide preference, a cause, or what will rank next year.
Reviewed evidence coverage
| Source year | Evidence rows | Exact written-name ranks |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18 | 18 |
| 2023 | 14 | 14 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025 | 165 | 152 |
Counts describe the reviewed export, not the size of each source's full top-100 table. One exact variant may contribute evidence in multiple years.
Highest 2025 exact matches in the reviewed database
These are the first five exact matches available in this site's reviewed set. They are not a rewritten top five: missing source positions remain missing.
How to compare annual positions responsibly
- Match the complete kanji spelling and principal kana reading, not romaji alone.
- Keep boys', girls', written-name, reading, and character rankings in separate fields.
- Retain the source year and sample limitation with every observation.
- Describe a visible change without inventing its cause. Media, celebrity, aesthetic, or social explanations need independent evidence.
- Do not label the latest reviewed year as a live current-year or monthly birth ranking.
Continue with the source-aligned tools
The ranking snapshot is the compact human-readable view. The dataset provides all 207 typed evidence rows in JSON and CSV for independent analysis.