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Shinobu

Shinobu is a unisex given name from Japanese.

Original Japanese忍

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Shinobu comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese しのぶ (Shinobu).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Shinobu through the years

Babies since 1880
10
5 boys · 5 girls
Most popular year
1919
5 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
Boys Girls
0246192019401960198020002025Highest share 1923Boys 0.0Girls 0.0
Shinobu in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1919–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 386 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.

Shinobu’s family of names

In English usage, Shinobu was borrowed from the Japanese form しのぶ. In Japanese usage, Shinobu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 忍.

Walk Shinobu’s family in the name graph

Shinobu忍信夫しのぶ

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Shinobu

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