Meaning & origin
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
Masaru through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 447
- 447 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 31 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 5 in 1992. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 353 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.
Masaru’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Masaru is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 優. In English usage, Masaru has a conventional equivalent in the Japanese form 勝. In Japanese usage, Masaru is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 勝.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Masaru
- Masaru UchiyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1957
- Masaru IbukaJapanese businessman (1908–1997)
- Masaru EmotoJapanese writer1943–2014
- Masaru KurotsuJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Masaru AkibaJapanese association football playerborn 1984
- Masaru KatoJapanese association football playerborn 1991
- Masaru MatsuhashiJapanese association football playerborn 1985
- Masaru HashiguchiJapanese association football playerborn 1974
- Masaru YamadaJapanese fencerborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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