Takeo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Takeo

What is the meaning of the name Takeo ?

The baby name Takeo is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced TAH-keh-oh.

Takeo is Japanese in Origin.

Takeo is a Japanese masculine given name, written in kana as たけお and romanized Takeo; because Japanese names are assigned kanji after the reading, no single spelling is intrinsic. Its root language is Japanese, with earliest recoverable form the phonetic reading たけお. Common compounds include 武男, where 武 take carries military, martial, valorous and 男 o is man; male, yielding martial man. Other first elements use native or Sino-Japanese readings: 竹 bamboo, 岳 mountain peak, 健 healthy, 猛 fierce, or 剛 sturdy.

The name fits a Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa preference for explicitly masculine endings such as -o written 男, 夫, 雄, or 郎. Notable bearers include novelist Arishima Takeo, prime ministers Fukuda Takeo and Miki Takeo, and naval officer Hirose Takeo, reflecting its presence among men born from the late nineteenth century onward. It appears less often among recent Japanese boys, whose names tend to favor different sounds and kanji styles.