Himari Name Meaning & Historical Trends

Himari

Pronunciation: hee-MAH-ree

Meaning Sun and hollyhock (varies by kanji) Gender Girl
GIRLS RANK
#5,144
TREND
344

Rank shows the name’s position among U.S. baby names for each gender in 2025. Trend shows how many places it rose or fell since 2024. Rank 1 is the most popular. Based on U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) data. Peak and lowest years are based on the number of girls named Himari in the available records.

Fun Facts About the Name Himari

  • 102 babies named Himari: U.S. records list 102 babies given the name Himari from 1880 through 2025.

What Does the Name Himari Mean?

Himari is a Japanese feminine given name. It has no single fixed meaning, because Japanese given names are written with kanji chosen by parents, and the sense of the name comes from those characters rather than from its sound. The most common modern spelling, 陽葵, joins 陽 (sun, sunshine) with 葵 (aoi, a plant name, in modern use usually the hollyhock). Read together, this spelling is often understood as "sun hollyhock," or a hollyhock turned toward the sun.

Another frequent spelling, 日葵, uses 日 (sun, day) with the same 葵. Other spellings produce unrelated meanings: 姫莉 combines 姫 (princess) with 莉, a character used in Japanese for jasmine, and 妃茉里 uses 妃 (princess, consort) with characters read ma and ri. The syllables hi and mari have no meaning by themselves.

Himari Name History & Origins

Himari belongs to a group of Japanese girls' names that came into wide use in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is not inherited from an older name with a settled form and meaning; each family writes it with the characters it prefers, so the written name differs from person to person even when the pronunciation is the same.

The character 葵 (aoi) has long been used in Japan as a plant name. It appears in the Aoi Festival (Aoi Matsuri) of Kyoto's Kamo shrines, where the honored plant is the wild ginger, futaba aoi; its use as the closing element of personal names like Himari is much more recent. Mari is also an older and separate girls' name, usually written 真理 ("truth"). Himari is not derived from it - the two names are simply written and read independently, and a shared sound does not establish a shared origin.

By the 2010s, Himari, especially the spelling 陽葵, had become one of the familiar names given to newborn girls in Japan.

How Popular is the Name Himari?

Himari has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #5,144 in 2025.

U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.

Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.

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How the Name Himari Shapes Your Personality and Life?

You attract success and money. You are a lover of nature and do not need others for your happiness. You are self sufficient. You strive for material success and power and have business sense. You possess strong organizational abilities, can be a good manager, and executive by nature. You are capable of great achievement in business and finance. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.

Dependable, very down-to-earth and well grounded, you are always looking for meaningful work, a career where you can take pride in your work and do the best job you are capable of. Your prime desire is to build protected and secure environment at home and at work. You can be very persuasive in achieving goals and gaining objectives. You can be very detailed and well-organized and possess great organizational skills. At times you may appear too stubborn and overly critical to others, but your practical approach to life and productivity makes you one of the most beneficent members of community.

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