Given name
Tsubasa
“a winged being”
Tsubasa is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “a winged being.”
Original Japanese大翔
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a winged being.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tsubasa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 39
- 39 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 9 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 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 177 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.
Tsubasa’s family of names
Tsubasa has a related form in Isubasah. Tsubasa has a related form in Isubase. Tsubasa has a related form in Tsubaseh.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tsubasa
- Tsubasa YokotakeJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Tsubasa OyaJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Tsubasa ShibuyaJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Tsubasa YoshihiraJapanese association football playerborn 1998
- Tsubasa NiheiJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Tsubasa AokiJapanese association football playerborn 1993
- Tsubasa SanoJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Tsubasa HondaJapanese female talent, television presenter, fashion model, YouTuber, game commentator (1992-)
- Tsubasa TerayamaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
Characters named Tsubasa: Tsubasa Oozora (Captain Tsubasa).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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