Takashi

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Takashi by the numbers

Takashi was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 42 babies in 1925, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Takashi

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Takashi. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Tadashiloyal, true, sincere10 in the US (2017)
  • Taksh8 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Takari16 in the US (2017)
  • Takai13 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Takashi

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