Masao

Where Masao comes from

Borrowed from Japanese まさお (Masao).
— Wiktionary's entry for Masao
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,345 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #700
    81 babies named Masao — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1923
    Masao Ono born
    Japanese association football player
  4. 1925
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,184.
  5. 1934
    Masao Uchino born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Masao Uchino · Japanese association football player, 1934–2013
  • Masao Nozawa · Japanese association football player
  • Masao Ono · Japanese association football player, 1923–2001
  • Masao Kiba · Japanese association football player, born 1974
  • Masao Tsuji · Japanese association football player, born 1987

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.