Entry № 1982 · Japanese origin

Chihiro Chihiro — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chee-HEE-roh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Thousand fathoms (Spirited Away heroine)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "thousand fathoms (spirited away heroine)".

Chihiro Ogino is the heroine of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli masterpiece Spirited Away (2001) — the highest-grossing Japanese film ever made.

Thousand fathoms. The Spirited Away heroine.

The name in its native script.

千尋
Transliteration
Chihiro
Pronunciation
/ tʃiːˈhiː.roʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chihiro stands.

Chihiro does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Chihiros before her.

Real people
Chihiro Onitsuka
Japanese singer-songwriter.
born 1980
In fiction
Chihiro Ogino
Heroine of Spirited Away.
Studio Ghibli, 2001

Names connected to Chihiro.

The number behind Chihiro.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chihiro reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.