Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 咲多朗, 咲多郎, 咲太朗, 咲太郎, 作多朗, 作多郎, 作太朗, 作太郎, 朔太郎, 柵太郎, 策太郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Other Forms FormsSakutaro, Sakutarō
Meaning & History
From Japanese 咲 (saku) meaning "blossom", 作 (saku) meaning "make, production, prepare, build", 朔 (saku) meaning "conjunction (astronomy), first day of month, north", 柵 (saku) meaning "stockade, fence, weir, entwine around" or 策 (saku) meaning "scheme, plan, policy, step, means", 多 (ta) meaning "many, much" or 太 (ta) meaning "thick, big" combined with 朗 (rou) meaning "bright, clear" or 郎 (rou) meaning "son". Other kanji combinations are possible. Famous bearers were Sakutarō Hagiwara, a Japanese writer of free-style verse, active in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan and Sakutaro Tachi, a Japanese expert on international law.