Shigeru

Where Shigeru comes from

The dictionaries list Shigeru as a given name — a male given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,421 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #1,079
    40 babies named Shigeru — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1929
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,731.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Shigeru hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.