Given name
Yasuo
“one who is peaceful”
Yasuo is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who is peaceful.”
Original Japanese弥寿男
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who is peaceful.”
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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yasuo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 207
- 207 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 21 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 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 270 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.
Yasuo’s family of names
Yasuo has a related form in Yasuzo. In Japanese usage, Yasuo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of やすお. In Japanese usage, Yasuo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 保夫.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 16
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yasuo
- Yasuo FukudaPrime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008born 1936
- Yasuo SuzukiJapanese association football player1913–2000
- Yasuo TakamoriJapanese association football player (1934–2016)
- Yasuo HaruyamaJapanese association football player (1906-1987)
- Yasuo ManakaJapanese association football playerborn 1971
- Yasuo KuniyoshiJapanese-American painter (1889–1953)
- Yasuo YamadaJapanese voice actor (1932–1995)
- Yasuo IchikawaJapanese politicianborn 1942
- Yasuo ŌtsukaJapanese animator and character designer (1931-2021)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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