Masao

Where Masao comes from

Borrowed from Japanese まさお (Masao).
— Wiktionary's entry for Masao
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Masao through the years
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,345 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #700
    81 babies named Masao, the most in any year.
  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.