Masaru Explained
| Masaru |
| Pronunciation: | Má-sá-rú |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. |
| Region: | Japanese |
| Origin: | Japanese |
| Related Names: | Suguru |
is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Masaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 勝, "excel"
- 優, "excel"
- 大, "large"
- 将 or 將, "commander"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People with the name
- Masaru Akiba (勝), a Japanese football player
- Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author
- Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion
- , Japanese equestrian
- Gagamaru Masaru (勝), a Georgian sumo wrestler
- Masaru Hamaguchi (優), Japanese comedian
- Masaru Hayami (優), the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Masaru Ibuka (大), a Japanese electronics industrialist
- Masaru Ikeda (勝), a Japanese actor and voice actor
- Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert
- Masaru Inada (勝), a Japanese skeleton racer
- Inoue Masaru (勝), a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways"
- , Japanese field hockey player
- Masaru Katori (まさる), a female Japanese writer and manga author
- Masaru Kageura (將), a Japanese baseball player
- , Japanese footballer
- Masaru Kitao (勝), a Japanese animator
- Masaru Konuma (勝), a Japanese director
- Masaru Kurotsu (勝), a Japanese football player
- Kyokutenhō Masaru (勝), a Mongolian sumo wrestler
- Masaru Matsuhashi (優), a Japanese football player
- , Japanese sport wrestler
- Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
- Masaru Nagai, Japanese actor known for Mirai Sentai Timeranger
- , Japanese ski jumper
- , Japanese baseball player
- Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
- , Japanese baseball player
- Masaru Sakurai (賢), a member of the Japanese musical group The Alfee
- Masaru Sato (勝), a Japanese composer
- Masaru Shimabukuro (優), a member of the Okinawan music band Begin
- Masaru Shintani, a Japanese-Canadian Karate master
- Masaru Takumi (勝), a Japanese yakuza
- Masaru Tobita (将), known as Survival Tobita, a Japanese professional wrestler
- Wakanohana Masaru (勝), a Japanese sumo wrestler
- , Japanese lawyer and politician
Fictional characters
- Masaru (マサル), a character in the manga and animated film Akira
- Masaru Daimon (Marcus Damon in the English dub), a character from the anime series Digimon Savers
- Masaru Kato (勝), a character from the anime and manga series Gantz
- Masaru Aoki of Hajime no Ippo
- Masaru Sera, the Third Chairman of the Tojo Clan in the first game in the Yakuza series
- Masaru Watase, the Waka gashira of the Omi Alliance in Yakuza 5
- Masaru "Echo" Enatsu, an SAT operative in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.
- Masaru Daimon, a character in .
- Masaru Bakugou (爆豪 勝), Katsuki Bakugo's father and the husband of Mitsuki Bakugo in the manga and anime My Hero Academia
- Konaka Masaru (Japanese name for Redd White), a character in Ace Attorney
See also
