The baby name Ishirō is a Boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced EE-shee-roh.
The baby name Ishirō is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced EE-shee-roh.
Ishirō is Chinese, Japanese in Origin.
Ishirō is a Japanese masculine name, written for filmmaker Honda Ishirō as 猪四郎 and in hiragana いしろう, the earliest securely cited form for this bearer. Its elements are kanji: 猪, read i here, denotes a wild boar; 四, shi, is four; 郎, rō, is a common male-name suffix meaning son or young man. The final vowel is long, so rō is not the same as short ro. In this spelling the literal sense is boar-four-son, conventionally interpreted as a fourth son born in the Year of the Boar.
The name belongs to Japan’s older stock of male given names built with numerals and the suffix -rō, familiar from Ichirō, Jirō, and Saburō. Ishirō is rarer, since 猪 links it to zodiac imagery as well as birth order. Abroad it is chiefly associated with director Ishirō Honda; Ishiro and Ishirou appear where macrons are unavailable.
Ishirō doesn't appear in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. Most often that means a rare name, a regional or heritage one, or a recent coinage. By any reading, it's an exceptionally uncommon choice.
| Ishirō Honda Ishirō Honda was a Japanese filmmaker best known for directing the original Godzilla film in 1954. He played a pivotal role in creating the kaiju genre, and his work on films like Mothra and Rodan further cemented his legacy in cinema. |
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