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Takuma

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Takuma has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 2007, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Takuma, 2019

1 in 579,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takuma: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Takuma means

Takuma 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 expand, open, support, real, genuine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Takuma is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.kɯᵝ.mä/ for Takuma.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 154 boys were recorded with the name Takuma between 1988 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,294 in 1994.

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.

How common is Takuma?

Takuma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takuma 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takuma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takumas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takuma was born before 2002 — so the typical Takuma is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
154
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Takuma 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 2007 (12)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,294
1994

Spellings of Takuma

Takuma is not the most common spelling — Tatum is, with 84.4% against Takuma's 0.98%.

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.

Takuma around the world

Where Takuma 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • France
    2009–2009
    #5,734
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1998–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Takuma 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
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Best rank ever
#6,294
1994
Peak year
2007
12 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Takuma

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

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Sibling names for Takuma

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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