Hiroshi
A Japanese name that carries the sense of "generous, broad-minded". In Poland it stays rare: about 61 men hold it and none were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Hiroshi Pronunciation
What Hiroshi means
Where Hiroshi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hiroshi is a Japanese name, and its meaning lives in the characters that write it. Kanji such as 浩, 弘, or 寛 all read as Hiroshi, and each points toward width. Broad, generous, broad-minded. The origin is not Indo-European. It grows from Japanese, where the same sound settles on several characters that lean toward largeness of spirit.
The meaning "generous" follows from that width. A broad mind keeps room for other people. Hiroshi Amano carried the name to the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014, honored for the blue LED. The name has no diminutives or variants recorded here. It stands as Hiroshi, plain.
For a Polish parent, the name arrives without a name-day in the church calendar. On a form at the urząd it will be entered as given, no Polish cousin attached. Three syllables: Hi-ro-shi. The English gloss stays close to the Japanese: generous, broad-minded.
How many people are named Hiroshi
1 in 349938 men in Poland is named Hiroshi. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4702 among male names.