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Tatsuya

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Tatsuya has been given to 104 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 1994, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Tatsuya, 2007

1 in 500,000

Tatsuya over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tatsuya: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Tatsuya means

Tatsuya 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 achieve, to be.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tatsuya is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.t͡sɨᵝ.jä/ for Tatsuya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Tatsuya between 1988 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,408 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 Tatsuya?

Tatsuya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 500,000
8 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 259,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
346,380 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tatsuya 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 2007 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 346,380 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tatsuya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tatsuyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tatsuya was born before 1996 — so the typical Tatsuya is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
60.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 60.6% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Tatsuya 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 1994 (11)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,408
1994

Tatsuya around the world

Where Tatsuya 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
    1997–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Tatsuya 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
#5,408
1994
Peak year
1994
11 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tatsuya

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

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Sibling names for Tatsuya

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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