Satoshi

Boys' name

Intelligent, clever

Satoshi has been given to 310 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 18 recorded.

Babies named Satoshi, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Satoshi: meaning, origin, and history

Intelligent, clever

Japanese

What Satoshi means

Satoshi means “intelligent, clever”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Satoshi is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sä.to̞.ɕi/ for Satoshi.

Origin, language, and formation

Satoshi is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Satoshi is pronounced /saˈtowʃi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 boys were recorded with the name Satoshi between 1912 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,929 in 1923.

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 Satoshi?

Satoshi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Satoshi 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Satoshi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Satoshis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Satoshi was born before 1931 — so the typical Satoshi is around 94 today.

Median birth year: 1931; About 94 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 14.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 150; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Satoshi 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 1923 (18)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,929; 1923

Where Satoshi is used

Across 1910–2025, Satoshi was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 162,153 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 6,667
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. Satoshi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Satoshi 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: #1,929; 1923
Peak year: 1923; 18 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 310
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Satoshi

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

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Sibling names for Satoshi

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

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For a brother

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