Given name & surname
Satomi
“wise; beauty”
Satomi is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese里見
Meaning & origin
What it means
Satomi goes back to a word meaning “wise; beauty.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Satomi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 0 boys · 63 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 8 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 girls is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 675 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.
Satomi’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Satomi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 佐都美. In Japanese usage, Satomi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 怜美. In Japanese usage, Satomi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 智美.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 11
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 智美original script · Japanese
- 聡美original script · Japanese
- 里視original script · Japanese
- 里見original script · Japanese
- 佐都美original script · Japanese
- 怜美original script · Japanese
- 里実original script · Japanese
- 郷美original script · Japanese
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People named Satomi
- May ZiadehLebanese-Palestinian writer (1886-1941)
- Satomi IshiharaJapanese actress (1986-)
- Satomi SatōJapanese voice actress and singerborn 1986
- Mai al-KailaPalestinian doctorborn 1955
- Satomi SuzukiJapanese swimmerborn 1991
- Satomi AraiJapanese voice actressborn 1980
- Satomi AkesakaJapanese voice actress, singer and actressborn 1988
- Satomi KōrogiJapanese actress, voice actress, singer and narratorborn 1962
- Satomi KobayashiJapanese actressborn 1965
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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