Given name
Satoshi
“born from the ashes”
Satoshi is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “born from the ashes.”
Original Japanese賀諭
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “born from the ashes.”
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
Satoshi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 310
- 310 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 18 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 815 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.
Satoshi’s family of names
Satoshi has a related form in Satoshea. Satoshi has a related form in Satoshee. Satoshi has a related form in Satoshey.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 22
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 哲original script · Japanese
- 悟志original script · Japanese
- 聖士original script · Japanese
- 賀諭original script · Japanese
- 聡志original script · Japanese
- 里志original script · Japanese
- 智史original script · Japanese
- 哲史in another script · Japanese
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- 智志original script · Japanese
- 智士original script · Japanese
- 暁original script · Japanese
- 智original script · Japanese
- 教original script · Japanese
- 敏original script · Japanese
- 慧original script · Japanese
- 悟original script · Japanese
- 怜original script · Japanese
- 里original script · Japanese
- 諭original script · Japanese
- 訓original script · Japanese
- 聡original script · Japanese
- 聖original script · Japanese
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Satoshi
- Satoshi ŌmuraJapanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
- Satoshi TsunamiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1961
- Satoshi YamaguchiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1978
- Satoshi MiyauchiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1959
- Satoshi TezukaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1958
- Satoshi YamaguchiJapanese association football player (born 1959)
- Satoshi KonJapanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010)
- Satoshi TajiriJapanese video game designerborn 1965
- Satoshi ŌtomoFilipino association football playerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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