Osamu
Osamu is a boy name of Japanese origin, ranked #103 in popularity, meaning Discipline, study.
What Osamu means
Discipline, study.
Osamu sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Osamu comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Osamu is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Osamu?
Osamu is ranked #103, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Osamu
We group Osamu under Wisdom. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Wisdom
Names like Osamu
These share Osamu's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daichi — Great land; great wisdom.
- Kenji — Strong and wise.
- Satoshi — Wise, clear-thinking.
- Takumi — Skilled artisan.
- Bodhi — Enlightenment, awakening.
- Hugo — Mind, intellect, spirit.
- Idris — Ardent lord; interpreter.
- Odin — All-father; god of wisdom and war.
- Advait — Unique; non-dual.
- Alfie — Wise counsel; elf wisdom.
- Alfred — Wise counsel; elf wisdom.
- Atticus — From Attica; of Athens.