Given name
Subaru
Subaru is a masculine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, Spanish, and Dutch.
Original Japanese昴
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2013. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Subaru through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,641 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,641 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Subaru’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Subaru was borrowed from the Japanese form 昴.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Subaru
Characters named Subaru: Subaru Natsuki (Re:Zero).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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