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Mamoru

boy name
Origin
Japanese
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady

Meaning

to protect, to defend

Popularity, 1890–2024

1890srare in US records2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mamoru has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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Popularity in Brazil

121 people · the #36,022 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 72

1940s1950s

Among people named Mamoru living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.

Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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The Mamoru deep dive

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Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Mamoru truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Mamoru fits with your family’s names and surname.

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