Kazuo

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1921 · 57 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
762
since 1911

Kazuo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Kazuo has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #931, 1921boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#12,0085
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2009#9,8647
2008#9,8717
2007#12,3675
2006#12,0555
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1944#3,4305
1943#3,2316
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1939#3,1136
1938#2,8687
1937#3,1756
1936#2,8547
1935#2,02913
1934#3,2776
1933
1932#1,58420
1931#1,84316
1930#1,46325
1929#1,79318
1928#1,64721
1927#1,29332
1926#1,29631
1925#1,12139
1924#1,20436
1923#1,07644
1922#95853
1921#93157
1920#1,04544
1919#97348
1918#1,01244
1917#1,15234
1916#1,20630
1915#1,18130
1914#1,49217
1913#1,14620
1912#1,41712
1911#1,5376
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First appearance
1911

The first year at least five boys were named Kazuo! It came in at #1,537, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1933, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kazuo
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • Biggest jump: 114 spots in 1921 (#1,045#931)
  • Biggest drop: 118 spots in 1923 (#958#1,076)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1911
  • Peaked 1921 at #931 (57 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1921–1922
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,324
  • Highest: 1 in 19,324 boys born in 1921 were named Kazuo (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 49.2% of all boys named Kazuo (375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s241#973 (1919)#1,235
1920s375#931 (1921)#1,236
1930s106#1,463 (1930)#2,467
1940s11#3,231 (1943)#3,331
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s24#9,864 (2009)#11,039
2010s0
2020s5#12,008 (2025)#12,008

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kazuo in 1923

boys
#1,076
44 births · 1 in 24,911 boys

Top boys' names in 1923

  1. #1John57,467
  2. #2Robert56,111
  3. #3William52,136
  4. #4James50,462
  5. #5Charles28,966
  6. #6George27,025
  7. #7Joseph25,561
  8. #8Edward20,597
  9. #9Richard18,887
  10. #10Donald16,433
  11. #1,076Kazuo44
More about 1923

boys

1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 24,911 of them was named Kazuo, which outranked 78.1% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kazuo
  1. #1,057Ocie45
  2. #1,057Raoul45
  3. #1,057Virgel45
  4. #1,076Kazuo44
  5. #1,076Kirk44
  6. #1,076Laddie44
  7. #1,076Layton44
  8. #1,087Buddie43
  9. #1,087Colin43
  10. #1,087Eligah43

Tied with 10 names at #1,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. 403Marcos#1,333#930
  2. 341Armin#1,333#992
  3. 309Betty#1,222#913
  4. 309Godfrey#1,222#913
  5. 308Val#1,181#873
Fallers
  1. 1,021Harden#999#2,020
  2. 472Buel#850#1,322
  3. 420Trinidad#485#905
  4. 304Gorden#722#1,026
  5. 288Joy#840#1,128

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1923