Given name

Tsubaki

Tsubaki is a feminine given name from Japanese.

Original Japaneseつばき

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tsubaki comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Tsubaki through the years

Babies since 1880
10
0 boys · 10 girls
Most popular year
2011
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Tsubaki in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2011–2025, per million girls born. 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 girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Tsubaki’s family of names

In Japanese usage, Tsubaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 山茶. In Japanese usage, Tsubaki is a Roman-alphabet rendering of つばき.

Walk Tsubaki’s family in the name graph

Tsubakiつばき山茶椿

The ring: spellings.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 3

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

People named Tsubaki

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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