Takeo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Takeo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘Warrior’. Takeshi $ ‘Warrior’, ‘fierce’.
- JPJapan≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 748K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 101K
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)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Warrior’. Takeshi $ ‘Warrior’, ‘fierce’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Takeo 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 | #772 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | listed | Takeo | 122 |
| CN China | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Takeo | 8 |
| US United States | — | 445 | 1 in 748K | 442 | Takeo | 143 |
| BR Brazil | — | 237 | 1 in 893K | 341 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 962K | — | Takeo | 4 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 584K | 1 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Takeo | 11 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 101K | listed | — | 3 |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Takeo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In rap, cold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Takeo Kuritab. 1889JPJapanese admiral
- Takeo Takagib. 1892JPadmiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II
- Takeo Fukudab. 1905JPPrime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978
- Takeo Mikib. 1907JPJapanese politician (1907-1988)
- Ichiro Fujiyamab. 1911JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer and composer (1911–1993)
- Shin Kyuk-hob. 1921KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman (1921–2020)
- Takeo Hiranumab. 1939JPJapanese politician
- Peter Takeo Okadab. 1941JPCatholic priest from Japan
- Takeo Chiib. 1942JPJapanese actor (1942–2012)
- Takeo Kanadeb. 1945JPJapanese computer scientist
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 442 | #22,398 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 341 | #8,035 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 276 | #20,810 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 237 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 235 | #22,529 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 213 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 169 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 89 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 80 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1930 | 53 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 37 | — |
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
- What does the name Takeo mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Warrior’. Takeshi $ ‘Warrior’, ‘fierce’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Takeo a male or female name?
- Takeo 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 Takeo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Takeo in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled takeo.
- How common is the name Takeo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 445 people named Takeo in 2020, about 1 in 748 thousand residents.
- How common is Takeo compared with other names?
- In Japan, Takeo is the 772nd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/takeoThe 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, “Takeo” — the 772nd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.