Hashtag Trends
What are the best hashtags for YouTube Shorts?
As of 2026-07-16, the most-used hashtag across YouTube's trending Shorts is #shorts, appearing on 8.3% of the 48 trending Shorts SocialCrawl sampled, followed by #fyp.
Last updated July 16, 2026
The numbers, right now
Last updated July 16, 2026
#shorts
Top hashtag
8.3%
Share of trending
48
Videos sampled
Live top 10
| Rank | Hashtag | % of trending videos | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #shorts | 8.3% | 188,642,751 |
| 2 | #fyp | 8.3% | 111,935,704 |
| 3 | #usa | 8.3% | 110,471,127 |
| 4 | #viral | 4.2% | 58,696,840 |
| 5 | #foryou | 4.2% | 58,393,241 |
| 6 | #funny | 4.2% | 57,043,915 |
| 7 | #profile | 4.2% | 37,710,266 |
| 8 | #amazing | 4.2% | 36,198,610 |
| 9 | #ytshorts | 4.2% | 27,291,239 |
| 10 | #flag | 2.1% | 93,580,455 |
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
- 2026-07-16
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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