Given name & surname
Masato
“one who is just”
Masato is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is just.”
Original Japanese正人
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who is just.”
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
Masato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 462
- 462 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 25 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 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 500 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.
Masato’s family of names
Masato has a related form in Masatoe. Masato has a related form in Masatow. Masato has a related form in Masatowe.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 18
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 正人in another script · Japanese
- 雅人in another script · Japanese
- 聖人in another script · Japanese
- 真登in another script · Japanese
- 真人in another script · Japanese
- 眞佐人in another script · Japanese
- 眞人in another script · Japanese
- 理人in another script · Japanese
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People named Masato
- Masato MorishigeJapanese association football playerborn 1987
- Masato KudoJapanese football player (1990-2022)
- Masato FueJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Masato YamazakiJapanese association football player (born 1981)
- Masato HarasakiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1974
- Masato SaitoJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Masato FukuiJapanese association football playerborn 1988
- Masato KogaJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Masato KurogiJapanese association football playerborn 1989
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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