Satoru is a boy's name of Japanese origin meaning “to know.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Satoru at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
“to know”
About the name Satoru
Satoru belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its meaning — “to know” — is the sense carried by its Japanese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Satoru first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1888 in 1917, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 235 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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