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Katsumi

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Katsumi has been given to 270 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1923, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Katsumi, 1943

1 in 564,000

Katsumi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Katsumi: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Katsumi means

Katsumi 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 overcome, victory, beautiful, self.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Katsumi is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kä.t͡sɨᵝ.mi/ for Katsumi.

Origin, language, and formation

Katsumi is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 265 boys were recorded with the name Katsumi between 1913 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,403 in 1923.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Katsumi between 2014 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2014; its best national rank was #17,853 in 2014.

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 Katsumi?

Katsumi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1943
1 in 564,000
5 of 2,822,499 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1943
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,283 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Katsumi 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 1943 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 391,283 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Katsumi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Katsumis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Katsumi was born before 1923 — so the typical Katsumi is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
64.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Katsumi 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (28)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,403
1923

Where Katsumi is used

Across 1910–2025, Katsumi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 107,779 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,556
  2. 2California1 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. Katsumi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Katsumi around the world

Where Katsumi 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.

  • France
    2006–2006
    #6,652
    in 2006

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Katsumi 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
#1,403
1923
Peak year
1923
28 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,853
2014
Peak year
2014
5 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Katsumi

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

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Sibling names for Katsumi

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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