Hiro (given name)

Hiro is a given name of Japanese, Polynesian, Indian and Spanish origin. The Japanese given name Hiro (ひろ, ヒロ) has multiple meanings, dependent on the characters used. The kanji 裕 means "abundant". 寛 means "generous, tolerant" and 浩 means "prosperous". It is a unisex name in Japanese, but predominantly used by males. Hiro is also a Polynesian masculine given name with origins in Tahitian and Polynesian mythology. Hiro is also a South Asian and Indian masculine given name. It originates from the Sindhi language and means diamond. A related given name is Hira in Sanskrit. Hiro is also a Spanish masculine name which is a variant form of Chairo and Jerome. It means "sacred name". Related given names are Hero and Iro which have Ancient Greek origin. Hiro is a wordplay and paronym of hero.

People with the name
Notable people with the name include:


 * Hiro Arikawa (有川 浩), a female Japanese light novelist
 * Hiro Yamagata (artist) (山形 博導), Japanese painter/artist
 * Hiro (music producer) (ヒロ), Japanese music producer (writer of Kumi Koda's "Taboo")
 * Hiro (photographer) (1930–2021), American fashion photographer
 * Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋 寛子), Japanese musician with the stage name Hiro
 * Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ), Japanese manga artist and the creator of Rave Master and "Fairy Tail", among other manga
 * Hiro Matsushita (松下弘幸), Japanese businessman and former racing driver
 * Hiro Murai (born 1983), American filmmaker
 * Hiro Muramoto (村本 博之), Japanese cameraman and journalist slain during the 2010 Thai political protests
 * Hiro Narita (ヒロ・ナリタ), American cinematographer
 * Hiro Fujiwara (藤原 ヒロ), Japanese manga artist, once active under her previous pen name, Izumi Hiro
 * Hiro Mizushima (水嶋 ヒロ), Japanese model and actor
 * Hiro Saga (嵯峨 浩), a Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer
 * Hiro Sasaki (ひろ ささき), a professional wrestler
 * Hiro Saito (ヒロ 斉藤), a Japanese professional wrestler
 * Hiro Suzuhira (鈴平ひろ), Japanese manga artist, character designer and illustrator
 * Hiro Shimono (下野 紘), Japanese voice actor and singer
 * Hiro Kanagawa (金川 弘敦), Japanese-Canadian actor and playwright
 * Hiroki Moriuchi (森内 寛樹), Japanese singer and vocalist from MY FIRST STORY with the stage name Hiro
 * Hiroshi Kawaguchi (川口 博史), Japanese video game composer and keyboardist, aka Master Hiro
 * Hiro Takahashi (高橋 ひろ), Japanese singer, lyricist, and composer, best known for Yu Yu Hakusho ending themes, "Unbalance na Kiss o Shite" and "Taiyō ga Mata Kagayaku Toki"
 * Hiro Yamamoto (山本 紘), American musician and co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Soundgarden
 * Hiro Poroiae (born 1986), Tahitian footballer
 * Hiro Sachiya (ひろさちや), a Japanese religious scholar and writer of Buddhism
 * Hiro Ohashi (大橋 廣), a Japanese botanist
 * Hiro Yūki (優希 比呂), Japanese voice actor
 * Hiro Ozawa (小澤 寛), Japanese footballer
 * Hiro Peralta (born 1994), is a Filipino actor
 * Hiro Matsuda (小島 泰弘), a Japanese wrestler and trainer
 * Hiro Fujikake (藤掛 廣幸), a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player.
 * Hiro Ando (born 1973), a Japanese contemporary artist
 * Hiroyuki Igarashi (五十嵐 広行), Japanese dancer and producer known as Hiro, leader of Exile
 * Hiromitsu-Aoki (青木 裕光), popularly known by his stage name Hiro-X
 * Hiro Badlani (born 1934), Indian ophthalmologist and Hindu author

Fictional characters

 * Hiro Nakamura, a character in the American television series Heroes with the ability to time-travel
 * Hiro Hiyorimi, main protagonist of the series Princess Resurrection
 * Hiro Granger, a character in the Beyblade series
 * Hiro, a Hero Templates DS Version Marionette/Wooden mannequin Character in Isaac the Nintendo title, similar to the Golden Sun from Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter.
 * Hiro Protagonist, a character in the science fiction novel Snow Crash
 * Hiro Sohma, a character in the Fruits Basket anime and manga series
 * Hiroshi Nohara, a character from the Crayon Shin-Chan series
 * Hiro, a character from the video game Bust a Groove
 * Hiro, a character from the Hidamari Sketch comic strip
 * Hiro, the main character in Lunar: Eternal Blue video game
 * Hiro, a character in Ginga Densetsu Weed series
 * Hiiro, also known as Nora, a major supporting character in the manga/anime series Noragami.
 * Hiro Sakurai, a main character in the Original English-language manga Miki Falls
 * Hiro, a Japanese steam engine character from the Thomas and Friends special "Hero of the Rails"
 * Hiro Fuse, a character from Scott Westerfeld's book, "Extras", of the Uglies series
 * Hiro the Mini Ninja, a player character in Mini Ninjas video game
 * Hiro Miyamoto, a swordmaster and protagonist in the game Daikatana
 * Heero Yuy (ヒロ・ユイ, Hiro Yui), Pilot of the Zero suit and a main character in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
 * Hiro Oozora, a character from Danball Senki W, one of the three protagonists.
 * Hiro, one of the giant ninja toads from Mount Myoboku from the anime and manga series, Naruto.
 * Hiro Takachiho, Marvel character from the superhero team Big Hero 6. He was renamed Hiro Hamada in the 2014 Disney film adaptation.
 * Hiro, a character from the anime Darling in the Franxx.
 * Hiro, one of the instructors in the video game Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm and Exercise.
 * Hiro Amanokawa, the main character of Digimon Ghost Game
 * Hiro-Kala, a fictional supervillain in Marvel Comics
 * Hiro Okamura, a teenage mechanical genius from Japan first appeared as the Toyman in Superman (vol. 2) #177

Mythology

 * Hiro is the god of thieves in Tahiti mythology, and a demigod in Polynesian mythology. He was the first builder of large canoes with planks sewn together called pahi.
 * On Easter Island is an ancient stone aerophone called the Pu o Hiro (Trumpet of Hiro) to invoke the god of rain Hiro in the easternmost Polynesian culture of the Rapa Nui.