Satoru

Boys' name

Enlightenment or intelligent, clever

Satoru has been given to 235 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 1917, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Satoru, 1993

1 in 628,000

Satoru over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Satoru: meaning, origin, and history

Enlightenment or intelligent, clever

Japanese

What Satoru means

Satoru means “enlightenment or intelligent, clever”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Satoru is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sä.to̞.ɾɯᵝ/ for Satoru.

Origin, language, and formation

Satoru is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 235 boys were recorded with the name Satoru between 1914 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,887 in 1917.

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.

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How common is Satoru?

Satoru had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 628,000; 6 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only: 1 in 327,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 435,382 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Satoru 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 1993 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 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Satoru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Satorus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Satoru was born before 1924 — so the typical Satoru is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.7%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (127).

Is Satoru 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: —; 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 1917 (17)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,887; 1917

Spellings of Satoru

Satoru is not the most common spelling — Storm is, with 93.9% against Satoru's 6.1%.

Storm93.9%3,605
Satoru6.1%235

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 Satoru is used

Across 1910–2025, Satoru was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 120,799 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 4,545
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. Satoru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Satoru 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: #1,887; 1917
Peak year: 1917; 17 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 235
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Satoru

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

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Sibling names for Satoru

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

For a sister

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Harriette Winnifred Maurine Johnie

For a brother

Regis Meyer Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe

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