Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tsutomu 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 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tsutomu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 352
- 352 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 31 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 1937. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 31 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 286 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.
Tsutomu’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Tsutomu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 剣. In Japanese usage, Tsutomu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 努. In Japanese usage, Tsutomu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 勉.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 12
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tsutomu
- Tsutomu Hata80th Prime Minister of Japan (1935-2017)
- Tsutomu SonobeJapanese association football playerborn 1958
- Tsutomu YamaguchiJapanese marine engineer (1916–2010)
- Tsutomu SekiJapanese astronomerborn 1930
- Tsutomu NishinoJapanese association football playerborn 1971
- Tsutomu TakahataJapanese association football player and managerborn 1968
- Tsutomu OguraJapanese association football player and managerborn 1966
- Tsutomu KitadeJapanese association football playerborn 1978
- Tsutomu FujiharaJapanese association football playerborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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