Gender Masculine
Usage Japanese
Scripts 信太郎, 心多郎, 慎多郎, 慎太郎, 新多朗, 新太朗, 晋多郎, 晋太郎, 真多朗, 真太朗, 真大郎, etc.(Japanese Kanji)
Other Forms FormsShintaro, Shintarō
Meaning & History
From Japanese 信 (shin) meaning "trust, faith", 太 (ta) meaning "thick, big" and 郎 (rou) meaning "son". Other kanji combinations are possible.Famous bearers are Shintaro Ishihara, a Japanese politician and author who was Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012 and Shintaro Yokota, a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.