Given name
Saburo
“the third-born son”
Saburo is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “the third-born son.”
Original Japaneseさぶろう
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “the third-born son.”
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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Saburo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 253
- 253 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 28 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 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 1925.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Saburo’s family of names
Saburo has a related form in Saburio. Saburo has a related form in Saburiyo. In Portuguese usage, Saburo was borrowed from the Japanese form さぶろう.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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