| Kenta | Tatsuo | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Healthy and big | dragon man |
| Origin | Japanese | japanese |
| Gender | Boy | Boy |
| Pronunciation | KEN-tah | tah-tsoo-oh |
| Syllables | 2 | 3 |
| First appeared | 1973 | 0 |
| Peak year | 1977 (48) | 1916 (57) |
| In 2025 | 7 | 0 |
| Trend | Declining | Vintage |
Source: US Social Security Administration.
| Decade | Kenta | Tatsuo |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 29 | 0 |
| 2010s | 98 | 0 |
| 2000s | 155 | 0 |
| 1990s | 216 | 0 |
| 1980s | 120 | 0 |
| 1970s | 93 | 0 |
| 1940s | 0 | 6 |
| 1930s | 0 | 7 |
| 1920s | 0 | 112 |
| 1910s | 0 | 97 |
Kenta joins the kanji for “healthy, strong” with “thick” or “big.”
Japanese given name read as 'dragon man' when written with a dragon element plus 'o/man', e.g. 竜雄 / 龍男 (竜/龍 'dragon' + o 'man/hero'). Hedge: strongly kanji-dependent; some spellings use 達 'attain' or other elements with no dragon sense, so only the 竜/龍/辰 writings genuinely mean dragon.
Kenta is more popular than Tatsuo today: about 7 US babies were given the name Kenta in 2025, compared with 0 named Tatsuo.
Kenta means Healthy and big (Japanese origin), while Tatsuo means dragon man (japanese origin).
In US records, Kenta first appears in 1973 and Tatsuo in 0, so Tatsuo has the longer recorded history.