About the name Sōsuke
Sōsuke belongs to the Japanese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Sōsuke first appears in Social Security records in 2011. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #8726 in 2018, and in 2024 6 babies received the name — 70 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.