Hashtag Trends
What are the best hashtags for YouTube Shorts?
As of 2026-06-27, the most-used hashtag across YouTube's trending Shorts is #shorts, appearing on 16.7% of the 48 trending Shorts SocialCrawl sampled, followed by #challenge.
Last updated June 27, 2026
The numbers, right now
#shorts
Top hashtag
16.7%
Share of trending
48
Videos sampled
Live top 10
| Rank | Hashtag | % of trending videos | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #shorts | 16.7% | 41,256,361 |
| 2 | #challenge | 10.4% | 330,999,316 |
| 3 | #funny | 10.4% | 13,042,903 |
| 4 | #family | 6.3% | 330,162,492 |
| 5 | #game | 6.3% | 330,162,492 |
| 6 | #foryou | 6.3% | 21,234,397 |
| 7 | #viral | 6.3% | 14,208,563 |
| 8 | #fyp | 6.3% | 12,691,288 |
| 9 | #edit | 6.3% | 11,032,825 |
| 10 | #motorcycle | 4.2% | 22,774,793 |
How we compute this
We pull YouTube's live trending Shorts feed (/v1/youtube/shorts/trending), extract every hashtag from the titles of 48 trending Shorts, and rank them by how many Shorts use each, tie-broken by total views. Recomputed on a regular cadence.
- Source endpoints
- /v1/youtube/shorts/trending
- Sample size
- 48
- Computed
- 2026-06-27
Run this yourself
One API call returns the same live feed we sampled. Drop in your key and go.
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/youtube/shorts/trending?region=US" \
-H "x-api-key: sc_your_api_key_here"FAQ
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