Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Masaichi isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
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
Masaichi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 159
- 159 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 21 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 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Masaichi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Masaichi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of まさいち. In Japanese usage, Masaichi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 政一. In Japanese usage, Masaichi is a transliteration of 政一.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Masaichi
- Masaichi KanedaJapanese professional baseball player, coach (1933-2019)
- Masaichi NiimiJapanese admiral (1887-1993)
- Masaichi NagataJapanese film producer1906–1985
- Fukushi MasaichiJapanese physician, pathologist. Founder of the world's only collection of tattoos taken from the dead (1878-1956)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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