Given name

Daisuke

Daisuke is a masculine given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese太亮

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Daisuke comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese だいすけ (Daisuke).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Daisuke through the years

Babies since 1880
136
136 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1992
13 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02468198020002025Highest share 19920.0
Daisuke in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1978–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 672 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.

Daisuke’s family of names

In English usage, Daisuke has a diminutive in Dice-K. In Japanese usage, Daisuke is a Roman-alphabet rendering of だいすけ. In English usage, Daisuke was borrowed from the Japanese form だいすけ.

Walk Daisuke’s family in the name graph

Daisuke太亮大助大祐大輔大介だいすけ大昌Dice-K

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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