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Saburo

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Saburo has been given to 253 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1925, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Saburo, 1937

1 in 426,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saburo: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Kanji

Japanese

What Saburo means

Saburo is a alternate transcription of Kanji.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Saburo is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sä.bɯᵝ.ɾo̞ː/ for Saburo.

Origin, language, and formation

Saburo is used in English, Portuguese and Tagalog. Its origins include Japanese.

Saburo comes through Japanese さぶろう.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kanji.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Saburo is pronounced /saˈbuɾo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 253 boys were recorded with the name Saburo between 1914 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1925; its best national rank was #1,419 in 1925.

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 Saburo?

Saburo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1937
1 in 426,000
5 of 2,130,660 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1937
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
295,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saburo 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 1937 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 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saburo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saburos were born

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

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
68.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (173).

Is Saburo 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 1925 (28)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,419
1925

Spellings of Saburo

Saburo is not the most common spelling — Mauro is, with 46.1% against Saburo's 1.8%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Saburo is used

Across 1910–2025, Saburo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 104,645 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,000
  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. Saburo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saburo 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
#1,419
1925
Peak year
1925
28 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
253
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Saburo

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

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Sibling names for Saburo

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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