Given name
Shigeo
Shigeo is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Portuguese.
Original Japanese栄男
Meaning & origin
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
Shigeo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 427
- 427 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 38 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 6 in 1936. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 38 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 164 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.
Shigeo’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Shigeo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of しげお. In English usage, Shigeo was borrowed from the Japanese form しげお. In Japanese usage, Shigeo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 栄男.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 栄男original script · Japanese
- 茂男original script · Japanese
- 繁雄original script · Japanese
- 繁夫original script · Japanese
- 重雄original script · Japanese
- 茂夫original script · Japanese
- 茂雄original script · Japanese
- 殖生original script · Japanese
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People named Shigeo
- Shigeo YaegashiJapanese association football player (1933-2011)
- Shigeo SugimotoJapanese association football player (1926-2002)
- Shigeo SawairiJapanese association football player and managerborn 1963
- Shigeo Araiswimmer (1916–1944)
- Shigeo ShingoJapanese engineer (1909–1990)
- Shigeo OnoueJapanese association football playerborn 1976
- Shigeo NagashimaJapanese baseball player and manager (1936–2025)
- Shigeo SugiuraJapanese swimmer (1917-1988)
- Shigeo NakataJapanese Olympic wrestlerborn 1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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