| Yamato | Tatsuya | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Great harmony | dragon |
| Origin | Japanese | japanese |
| Gender | Boy | Boy |
| Pronunciation | yah-MAH-toh | tah-tsoo-yah |
| Syllables | 3 | 3 |
| First appeared | 2000 | 0 |
| Peak year | 2007 (11) | 1994 (11) |
| In 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Trend | Declining | Declining |
Source: US Social Security Administration.
| Decade | Yamato | Tatsuya |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 10 | 0 |
| 2010s | 57 | 0 |
| 2000s | 62 | 29 |
| 1990s | 0 | 63 |
| 1980s | 0 | 12 |
Yamato means “great harmony,” an ancient poetic name for Japan itself.
Japanese given name that is dragon-meaning only in the kanji spellings that use the dragon elements, e.g. 竜也 (tatsu 'dragon' + ya) or 辰也 (辰 'dragon' of the zodiac + ya). Hedge: the reading is kanji-dependent and other spellings carry unrelated senses such as 達也 'accomplished/far-reaching', so the dragon meaning holds only for the 竜/辰 writings.
Yamato and Tatsuya are given to a similar number of US babies today.
Yamato means Great harmony (Japanese origin), while Tatsuya means dragon (japanese origin).
In US records, Yamato first appears in 2000 and Tatsuya in 0, so Tatsuya has the longer recorded history.