Yasuo as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Yasuo

What is the meaning of the name Yasuo ?

The baby name Yasuo is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ja.sɯ.o/.

Yasuo is Japanese in Origin.

Yasuo is a Japanese masculine given name, with the earliest recoverable form best treated as phonetic やすお, since the sound may be assigned several kanji spellings. It is built as yasu + o. The first element is commonly written with 安 tranquil, 康 healthy; peaceful, 靖 peaceful, or 泰 calm; the final element often uses 男 man, 雄 male, 夫 husband/man, or 郎 son. Thus 安雄 reads literally tranquil male, while 康夫 gives healthy or peaceful man.

The name belongs to modern Japanese kanji naming practice rather than a single inherited form, and it is also written in katakana ヤスオ. Bearers include former prime minister Yasuo Fukuda, artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi, animator Yasuo Ōtsuka, and voice actor Yasuo Yamada. In U.S. records it appears chiefly among Japanese and Japanese American families, with Social Security registrations clustered in the 1910s and 1920s and only occasional recent use.