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Tsuneo

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Tsuneo has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1921, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Tsuneo, 1930

1 in 445,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tsuneo: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Tsuneo means

Tsuneo 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 constant, persistent, man, husband, male, man, hero, manly.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tsuneo is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡sɨᵝ.ne̞.o̞/ for Tsuneo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 113 boys were recorded with the name Tsuneo between 1916 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,089 in 1929.

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 Tsuneo?

Tsuneo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930
1 in 445,000
5 of 2,223,243 births
Among boys only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
308,208 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tsuneo 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 1930 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 308,208 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tsuneo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tsuneos were born

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

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
72.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1920s — 72.6% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Tsuneo 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 1921 (15)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,089
1929

Where Tsuneo is used

Across 1910–2025, Tsuneo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 8,989 across all states with data.

1111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091

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. Tsuneo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tsuneo 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
#2,089
1929
Peak year
1921
15 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
113
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tsuneo

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

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Sibling names for Tsuneo

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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