Takashi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Takashi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’.
- JPJapan≈1 in 312(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 207K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 312 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’. Takayuki $ ‘Noble’, ‘filial happiness’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Takashi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #3 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 312 | listed | Takashi | 194 |
| US United States | — | 1,607 | 1 in 207K | 1.6K | Takashi | 226 |
| BR Brazil | — | 571 | 1 in 371K | 766 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Takashi | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Takashi | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 1 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Takashi | 29 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | — | 5 |
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: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hara Takashib. 1856JPPrime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- Takashi Shimurab. 1905JPJapanese actor (1905–1982)
- Takashi Kawamurab. 1948JPJapanese politician (born 1948)
- Takashi Matsuyamab. 1960JPJapanese actor and voice actor
- Takashi Miikeb. 1960JPJapanese film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor
- Takashi Murakamib. 1962JPJapanese contemporary artist, film director (born 1962)
- Takashi Yamazakib. 1964JPJapanese filmmaker and visual effects artist
- Takashi Fujiib. 1972JPJapanese comedian and singer
- Takashi Shimizub. 1972JPJapanese filmmaker (born 1972)
- Takashi Inuib. 1988JPJapanese association football player
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)
Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,866 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 766 | #4,570 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 746 | #11,107 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 571 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 570 | #12,208 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 549 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 522 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 471 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 332 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 183 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 149 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 139 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Takashi come from?
- ‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’. Takayuki $ ‘Noble’, ‘filial happiness’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Takashi mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Praiseworthy’, ‘filial official’.
- Is Takashi a male or female name?
- Takashi 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.
- In which country does Takashi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 402 thousand people named Takashi in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takashi.
- How common is the name Takashi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,607 people named Takashi in 2020, about 1 in 207 thousand residents.
- How common is Takashi compared with other names?
- In Japan, Takashi is the 3rd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takashiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Takashi” — the 3rd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.