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Tsubasa

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Tsubasa has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 1997, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Tsubasa, 2008

1 in 786,000

Tsubasa over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tsubasa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Japanese origin

Japanese

What Tsubasa means

Tsubasa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tsubasa is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Tsubasa between 1997 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1997; its best national rank was #6,573 in 1997.

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 Tsubasa?

Tsubasa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among boys only
1 in 408,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tsubasa 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tsubasa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tsubasas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tsubasa was born before 1999 — so the typical Tsubasa is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
56.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Tsubasa 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 1997 (9)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,573
1997

Tsubasa around the world

Where Tsubasa 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.

  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tsubasa 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
#6,573
1997
Peak year
1997
9 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tsubasa

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

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Sibling names for Tsubasa

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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