Sho
Sho is a boy name of Japanese origin, ranked #107 in popularity, meaning To soar, to fly; to prosper.
What Sho means
To soar, to fly; to prosper.
Sho is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Sho 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.
Sho is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Sho?
Sho is ranked #107, 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 Sho
We group Sho under Sky. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Sky
Names like Sho
These share Sho's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
- Noboru — To rise, to ascend.
- Riku — Land; sky.
- Sora — Sky.
- Buraun — Cloud.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Atlas — Enduring; the Titan who bears the sky.
- Sorin — Sun.
- Aarush — First ray of the sun.
- Aditya — The sun.
- Apollo — God of light, music and the sun.