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Around the world, タケシ (Takeshi , タケシ , Takesi ) is quite a common male first name. The first name タケシ is habitual in Japan, where it is quite a rare masculine name, El Salvador, where it is a rare masculine name, and Bolivia. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in Japan, China, and Indonesia. More prevalently, タケシ is the last name as well as the forename.
タケシ is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Takeshi Goda , the character in the Doraemon series; Takeshi Kovacs , the fictional character, Altered Carbon; Takeshi Yamamoto , the fictional character from Reborn!; Takeshi Nakazato , the fictional character from Initial D and Takeshi Sendo , the fictional character from Hajime no Ippo, among other works.