This post isn't one of those posts in 'search for Satoshi' as privacy-aware Satoshi would have used a pseudonym; However, I thought that it might be interesting to see whether the name grew in popularity since 2008...

(The following data came from Everything-Birthday - with archived link below)

The below graph, labeled 'Percentage named Satoshi' is a graph showing the overall ranking of the boys name Satoshi in the USA from 1880-2023. 1 being the highest and most popular, 40337 being the lowest and least used. Through these years over 40337 unique total names have been given to boys living in the United States so far. Satoshi's average ranking is 9094.18, with it's highest ever rank being #860. Satoshi has reach the top 10 most popular boys name 0 times, and has reached the top hundred names 0 times.

Satoshi: Baby name popularity graph, 1880-2023

Satoshi has been used in the United States ever since 1912, with over 323 boys given the name in the past 200 years. Satoshi gained the most popularity as a baby name in 1923, when it's usage went up by 149.07%. During this year, 18 babies were named Satoshi, which was 0.0008% of the baby boys born in the USA that year. The most the names popularity ever grew to was 0.001%, in this year alone more than 0 boys were named Satoshi.

(Above is graph conveys how the the name Satoshi fared in the ranking.)

(One image that didn't archive well was how the name Satoshi was dispersed in the USA - Hawaii had more children named Satoshi per head with California coming in second. The rest of the states seemed to have either few or none.)

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Incidentally, and just as interestingly, here's some of the name's meanings:

What does the name Satoshi mean?

Satoshi has different meanings depending on the kanji characters, e.g. “wisdom” (智), “enlightenment” (悟), “intelligent” (聡) or “wise” (慧).

Popularity of the name Satoshi The name Satoshi is ranked #13184 overall.

(The cute baby name image, at the very top, came from this link too)

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Conclusion: there wasn't a big rise - but that's probably no surprise with savvy bitcoiners in the USA from an OPSEC viewpoint...

Nice to see the definitions of the name Satoshi chose to use though - a really nice choice!

It would be interesting to see how the name in Japan ebbed and flowed since 2008.

Any native speakers please post...