Tamotsu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Protect’; ‘complete’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təmɒtsu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tamotsu is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Protect’; ‘complete’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Tamotsu Shibutanib. 1920USAmerican sociologist
- Tamotsu Yatōb. 1928JPJapanese photographer
- Tamotsu Kimurab. 1934JPJapanese baseball player
- Tamotsu Aokib. 1938JPcultural anthropologist; head of agency for cultural affairs of Japan
- Tamotsu Suzukib. 1947JPJapanese association football player and manager
- Tamotsu Yamamotob. 1948JPJapanese politician
- Tamotsu Ishibashib. 1965JPJapanese actor
- Tamotsu Kurodab. 1970JPJapanese comedian
- Tamotsu Komatsuzakib. 1970JPJapanese association football player
- Tamotsu Suganob. 1974JPJapanese author and activist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 118 | #16,720 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 94 | #37,450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #54,512 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 26 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Tamotsu mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Protect’; ‘complete’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Tamotsu?
- A machine transcription gives /təmɒtsu/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Tamotsu a male or female name?
- Tamotsu 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 Tamotsu have the most bearers?
- Tamotsu is most frequently recorded in Japan.
What do you want to know about Tamotsu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tamotsuThe 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, “Tamotsu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.