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Daisuke

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Daisuke has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Daisuke, 2012

1 in 732,000

Daisuke over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daisuke: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Daisuke means

Daisuke is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include big, great, help.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Daisuke is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /dä.i.sɨᵝ.ke̞/ and /dä.i.ske̞/ for Daisuke.

Origin, language, and formation

Daisuke is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Daisuke comes through Japanese だいすけ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 136 boys were recorded with the name Daisuke between 1978 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1992; its best national rank was #4,143 in 1979.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Daisuke?

Daisuke had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daisuke sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daisuke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daisukes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daisuke was born before 1990 — so the typical Daisuke is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Daisuke rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (13)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,143
1979

Where Daisuke is used

Across 1910–2025, Daisuke was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,563,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daisuke has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daisuke around the world

Where Daisuke ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daisuke by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,143
1979
Peak year
1992
13 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
136
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daisuke

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Daisuke

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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