Sōsuke

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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Sōsuke is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.

  • JPJapan≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 13M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 14Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,000 people, est.

Record sources
65 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Japan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sosuke in JP Japan, US United States, AU Australia and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sōsuke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sōsuke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan≈3,000 est.≈1 in 42K—Sosuke65
US United States≈24 est.≈1 in 14M6Sosuke37
AU Australia≈4 est.≈1 in 6.5M—Sosuke7
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 16M—Sosuke3
PL Poland31 in 13M3——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Sōsuke is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Sosuke, Sōsukē

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Sosuke Uno, b. 1922Sousuke Takaoka, b. 1982Sōsuke Ikematsu, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sōsuke under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Sōsuke a male or female name?
Sōsuke is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Sōsuke?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Sōsuke in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sosuke. After it come United States, Australia, Canada and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Sōsuke?
In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Sōsuke in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C5%8Dsuke

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sōsuke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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