Given name
Osamu
Osamu is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, Czech, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese致勲
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Osamu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 94
- 94 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 11 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 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 390 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.
Osamu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Osamu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of おさむ. In Czech usage, Osamu was borrowed from the Japanese form おさむ. In Japanese usage, Osamu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 修.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 13
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Osamu
- Osamu TezukaJapanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
- Osamu ShimomuraJapanese organic chemist and marine biologist (1928–2018)
- Osamu DazaiJapanese author1909–1948
- Osamu MaedaJapanese association football playerborn 1965
- Osamu TaninakaJapanese association football playerborn 1964
- Osamu YamajiJapanese association football player (1929-2021)
- Osamu HiroseJapanese association football playerborn 1965
- Osamu UmeyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Osamu WatanabeJapanese wrestlers (1940–2022)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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