Ichiro

Where Ichiro comes from

Borrowed from Japanese いちろう (Ichirō), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ichiro
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Ichiro through the years
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #1,782 among boys with 16 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Peak, #1,694
    21 babies named Ichiro, the most in any year.
  3. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,155.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.