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Yasuo

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Yasuo has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1919, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Yasuo, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yasuo: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Yasuo means

Yasuo 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 peaceful, hero, manly, man, husband.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yasuo is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jä.sɨᵝ.o̞/ for Yasuo.

Origin, language, and formation

Yasuo is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 boys were recorded with the name Yasuo between 1914 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,692 in 1919.

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 Yasuo?

Yasuo 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 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yasuo 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yasuo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yasuos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yasuo was born before 1923 — so the typical Yasuo is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
58.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Yasuo 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 1919 (21)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,692
1919

Spellings of Yasuo

Yasuo is not the most common spelling — Yusuf is, with 48.9% against Yasuo's 0.88%.

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.

Where Yasuo is used

Across 1910–2025, Yasuo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 115,378 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,545
  2. 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. Yasuo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yasuo 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
#1,692
1919
Peak year
1919
21 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
207
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yasuo

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

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Sibling names for Yasuo

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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