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(Main) gender: Male
Pronunciation: khee-de-to-rah [çì.dé̞.tò̞.ɾà]
Etymology and/or ways to write:
The second element of this name comes from the word referring to a tiger, written as 虎. When written as 寅, it refers to the sign of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac. 彪 is a more recently used kanji, which can refer to a small tiger or otherwise the stripes of a tiger.
As for the first element, it is derived, via a sound shift, from the imperfective and continuative form of the verb 秀でる (hiideru) meaning “to excel, surpass.” From old Japanese 秀づ (hiidzu), it stems from a combination of 穂 (ho), shifted to hi, meaning “ear/head (of plant); point, tip” and verb 出づ (idzu) meaning “to come out.” 英, meaning “wisdom, brilliance,” is another kanji used in relation to the derivation as is 日出, in this case a shortening of hinode meaning “sunrise.”
Popularity:
Before the 21st century, this name was in rare to very rare use with around 0.0002% of males recorded in telephone book data bearing this name. Throughout the first half of the 1990s, usage levels peaked at 0.001% but beginning in 1996, it started to rise above it.
By 2000, it was given to 0.006% of boys. Throughout the 2000s, the name would more often than not rise above 0.01% with a decadal peak of just over 0.02% in 2009. Based on Baby Calendar rankings data as well as my 2014-21 names research, by the second half of the 2010s, average usage levels had gone back down below 0.01%.
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