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Around the world, Tōru (Toru , 徹 , Tōru) is quite a common predominantly masculine, but scarcely female given name. The first name Tōru is characteristic of Ethiopia, where it is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but very infrequently girly name, Japan, where it is quite a rare male name, and Romania, where it is a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in Ethiopia, Japan, and India. Likewise, Tōru is the last name as well as the forename.
Tōru is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Tōru Kazama , the fictional character from Crayon Shin-chan and Toru Sekiguchi , the character from Kuroko's Basketball.