About the name Susumu
Susumu 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, Susumu first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1406 in 1919, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 351 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.