Satoshi
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Satoshi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Wise’; ‘quick-witted’; ‘clear [thinking]’.
- JPJapan1 in 693◐
- USUnited States1 in 412K
- SGSingapore1 in 116K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 174 ●
- 1 in 412K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
91K records
Reference-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
‘Wise’; ‘quick-witted’; ‘clear [thinking]’. Seiichi $ ‘Admonishing first [son]’; ‘pure first [son].
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #10 | 104,183 | 85K rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 174 |
| US United States | — | 808 | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 412K | 808 | Satoshi | 169 |
| CA Canada | — | 272 | 255 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 191 | 143 rec. | — | listed | Satoshi | 33 |
| CN China | — | 190 | 30 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 17 |
| IN India | — | 153 | 47 rec. | — | 11 | Satoshi | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 151 | — | 1 in 1.4M | 181 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 110 | 104 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 15 |
| SG Singapore | — | 93 | 84 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 18 |
| PE Peru | — | 43 | 16 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 11 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 42 | 3 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 15 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 38 | 28 rec. | — | — | Satoshi | 26 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese110K88%
- English4.9K4%
- Portuguese4K3%
- Hindi1.2K1%
- Spanish1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 110,068 | 88% |
| English | 4,894 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 3,970 | 3% |
| Hindi | 1,243 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,066 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1915 | 10 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 9 |
| 1918 | 9 |
| 1919 | 13 |
| 1920 | 9 |
| 1921 | 11 |
| 1922 | 12 |
| 1923 | 18 |
| 1924 | 12 |
| 1925 | 13 |
| 1926 | 8 |
| 1927 | 8 |
| 1928 | 11 |
| 1931 | 7 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1912–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Satoshi Ōmurab. 1935JPJapanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
- Satoshi Kuribayashib. 1939JPJapanese photographer
- Satoshi Sugitab. 1944JPEnglish teacher
- Satoshi Takebeb. 1957JPJapanese arranger, composer, and music producer (1957-)
- Satoshi Mitazonob. 1958JPJapanese journalist and the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
- Satoshi Tsunamib. 1961JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Satoshi Konb. 1963JPJapanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010)
- Satoshi Tajirib. 1965JPJapanese video game designer
- Satoshi Yamamotob. 1965JPManga artist
- Satoshi Urushiharab. 1966JPJapanese artist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 808 | #14,468 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 426 | #19,641 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 181 | #12,592 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 151 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 148 | #30,950 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 144 | #30,343 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 130 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 93 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #7,316 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 47 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 37 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 190 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Satoshi?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Satoshi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Satoshi have the most bearers?
- Satoshi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled satoshi.
- How common is Satoshi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Satoshi is the 10th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Satoshi a male or female name?
- Satoshi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Satoshi mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Wise’; ‘quick-witted’; ‘clear [thinking]’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Satoshi” — the 10th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.