Tadanobu as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tadanobu

What is the meaning of the name Tadanobu ?

The baby name Tadanobu is a boy name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced tah-dah-NOH-boo.

Tadanobu is Japanese in Origin.

Tadanobu is a Japanese masculine name written in kana as ただのぶ and in many possible kanji. The best-attested medieval form is 忠信, as in Satō Tadanobu of the late Heian period. 忠, read tada in names, carries the sense of loyalty or sincere devotion; 信, read nobu as a name reading, signifies trust, faith, or reliability. Other spellings use 伸, 延, 暢, or 展 for nobu, adding the literal idea of stretching, extending, or spreading.

The name belongs to the Japanese practice of combining semantically charged kanji with conventional name readings, so its nuance changes by written form. 忠信 is also associated with the Yoshitsune cycle through the warrior Satō Tadanobu, later dramatized in kabuki and bunraku. In modern contexts it is familiar chiefly through actor Tadanobu Asano. Related masculine names share one element rather than serving as true variants, such as Tadaaki, Tadanori, Nobuo, and Nobuyuki.

⚙ Tadanobu is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Tadanobu appears only 5 times in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.