Takeshi

Where Takeshi comes from

The dictionaries list Takeshi as a given name — a male given name from Japanese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,045 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    Peak, #1,107
    42 babies named Takeshi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,298.
  4. 1977
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Takeshi hasn't yet.

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.