Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tamotsu isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tamotsu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 199
- 199 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 26 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 1932. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1923.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tamotsu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Tamotsu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 保.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tamotsu
- Tamotsu SuzukiJapanese association football player and manager1947–2025
- Tamotsu KomatsuzakiJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Tamotsu NakamuraJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Tamotsu YatōJapanese photographer1928–1973
- Tamotsu MatsudaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1948
- Tamotsu ChikanariJapanese cyclistborn 1929
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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