Given name
Atsushi
“a compassionate warrior”
Atsushi is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “a compassionate warrior.”
Original Japanese淳
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a compassionate warrior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Atsushi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 86
- 86 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 1992. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 625 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Atsushi’s family of names
Atsushi has a related form in Atsushea. Atsushi has a related form in Atsushee. Atsushi has a related form in Atsushey.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 22
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 厚志original script · Japanese
- 篤志original script · Japanese
- 貴志original script · Japanese
- 徳士original script · Japanese
- 徳志original script · Japanese
- 敦史original script · Japanese
- 敦志original script · Japanese
- 淳史original script · Japanese
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- 敦士original script · Japanese
- 篤史original script · Japanese
- 敦司original script · Japanese
- 淳志original script · Japanese
- 安通志original script · Japanese
- 淳in another script · Japanese
- 敦original script · Japanese
- 惇original script · Japanese
- 厚original script · Japanese
- 純original script · Japanese
- 篤original script · Japanese
- 竺original script · Japanese
- 真original script · Japanese
- 温original script · Japanese
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Atsushi
- Atsushi YanagisawaJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Atsushi UchiyamaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1959
- Atsushi YoneyamaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1976
- Atsushi NatoriJapanese association football playerborn 1961
- Atsushi NakajimaJapanese writer (1909–1942)
- Atsushi ShiraiJapanese association football playerborn 1966
- Atsushi KimuraJapanese association football playerborn 1984
- Atsushi NagaiJapanese association football playerborn 1974
- Atsushi KatagiriJapanese association football playerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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