Saburo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Third son’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səbʊɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saburo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.1M
- CNChina≈1 in 969K
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
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Third son’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saburo 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.
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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
- Saburō Kurusub. 1886JPJapanese diplomat (1886–1954)
- Saburo Aizawab. 1889JPJapanese military officer of the Imperial Japanese Army (1889–1936)
- Saburo Sakaib. 1916JPJapanese flying ace (1916–2000)
- Saburō Kitajimab. 1936JPJapanese enka singer, lyricist and composer
- Saburo Kawabuchib. 1936JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Sab Shimonob. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Saburō Ishikurab. 1946JPJapanese actor
- Saburō Shinodab. 1948JPJapanese actor
- Saburō Tokitōb. 1958JPJapanese actor
- Saburo Ohmurab. 1976JPJapanese former professional baseball player, coach and manager
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 185 | #12,369 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 161 | #28,578 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 101 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #41,030 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 53 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 48 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1930 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 20 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Saburo mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Third son’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Saburo?
- A machine transcription gives /səbʊɹoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Saburo a male or female name?
- Saburo 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.
- What are other forms of the name Saburo?
- In the etymology graph, Saburou is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Saburo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Saburo in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saburo.
- How common is the name Saburo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 101 people named Saburo in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saburoThe 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, “Saburo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.