Given name
Isamu
“one who has a lot of energy”
Isamu is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who has a lot of energy.”
Original Japanese勇
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who has a lot of energy.”
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 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Isamu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 562
- 562 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 40 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 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 40 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 307 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.
Isamu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Isamu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 勇.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Isamu
- Isamu AkasakiJapanese engineer (1929-2021)
- Isamu NoguchiJapanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)
- Isamu SonodaJapanese judoka1946–2026
- Isamu MatsuuraJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Isamu YoshiiJapanese writer (1886–1960)
- Isamu TakeshitaJapanese admiral1869–1949
- Isamu YokoyamaJapanese general (1889-1952)
- Isamu KamikokuryoJapanese video game artist (born 1970)
- Knock YokoyamaJapanese comedian and politician1932–2007
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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