Tatsuo

Where Tatsuo comes from

Tatsuo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1904
    Tatsuo Hori born
    writer, poet, and translator in Japan
  2. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1916
    Peak, #824
    57 babies named Tatsuo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1917
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,562.
  5. 1940
    Tatsuo Fujimoto born
    Japanese Olympic swimmer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tatsuo Hori · writer, poet, and translator in Japan, 1904–1953
  • Tatsuo Fujimoto · Japanese Olympic swimmer, born 1940
  • Tatsuo Yoshida · Japanese mangaka and animator, 1932–1977
  • Tatsuo Kawabata · Japanese politician, born 1945
  • Tatsuo Saitō · Japanese actor, 1902–1968

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.