Takashi
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Takashi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’.
- JPJapan1 in 479◐
- USUnited States1 in 213K
- SGSingapore1 in 62K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 202 ●
- 1 in 188K ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
139K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
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●
‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’. Takayuki $ ‘Noble’, ‘filial happiness’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 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 | #3 | 150,894 | 127K rec. | — | listed | Takashi | 188 |
| US United States | — | 1,564 | 10K rec. | 1 in 213K | 1.6K | Takashi | 202 |
| BR Brazil | — | 571 | — | 1 in 371K | 766 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 561 | 534 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 364 | 311 rec. | — | listed | Takashi | 38 |
| SG Singapore | — | 173 | 160 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | 143 | 78 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 26 |
| RU Russia | — | 137 | 132 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 16 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 86 | 5 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 84 | 85 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 77 | 64 rec. | — | listed | Takashi | 19 |
| KR South Korea | — | 76 | 5 rec. | — | — | Takashi | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese163K83%
- Portuguese14K7%
- English11K6%
- Spanish2K1%
- German1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 163,395 | 83% |
| Portuguese | 14,381 | 7% |
| English | 11,185 | 6% |
| Spanish | 2,009 | 1% |
| German | 1,169 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1913 | 11 |
| 1915 | 16 |
| 1916 | 14 |
| 1917 | 26 |
| 1918 | 17 |
| 1919 | 23 |
| 1920 | 16 |
| 1921 | 32 |
| 1922 | 36 |
| 1923 | 36 |
| 1924 | 32 |
| 1925 | 42 |
| 1926 | 42 |
| 1927 | 25 |
| 1928 | 16 |
| 1929 | 23 |
| 1930 | 9 |
| 1931 | 16 |
| 1932 | 15 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1935 | 9 |
| 1936 | 9 |
| 1937 | 8 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 7 |
| 1944 | 6 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 13 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 16 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 70 years between 1913–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hara Takashib. 1856JPPrime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- Takashi Shimurab. 1905JPJapanese actor (1905–1982)
- Takashi Kawamurab. 1948JPJapanese politician (born 1948)
- Takashi Matsuyamab. 1960JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Takashi Miikeb. 1960JPJapanese film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor
- Takashi Murakamib. 1962JPJapanese contemporary artist, film director (born 1962)
- Takashi Yamazakib. 1964JPJapanese filmmaker and visual effects artist
- Takashi Fujiib. 1972JPJapanese comedian and singer
- Takashi Shimizub. 1972JPJapanese filmmaker (born 1972)
- Takashi Inuib. 1988JPJapanese association football player
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 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,866 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,255 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 766 | #4,570 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 746 | #11,107 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 571 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 570 | #12,208 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 549 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 522 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 471 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 332 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 183 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 149 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Takashi?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Takashi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Takashi have the most bearers?
- Takashi is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled takashi.
- How common is Takashi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Takashi is the 3rd most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Takashi a male or female name?
- Takashi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Takashi mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’.
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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, “Takashi” — the 3rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.