Entry № 10791 · Japanese origin

Tsubasa Tsubasa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tsoo-BAH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Wings (modern Japanese unisex)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "wings (modern japanese unisex)".

Tsubasa is from the Japanese 翼 (tsubasa — wings). Captain Tsubasa (キャプテン翼, since 1981) — one of the most-iconic and most-influential sports manga and anime series in Japanese history; created by Yoichi Takahashi; over 80 million copies sold worldwide; the iconic series has been credited as one of the influences on the global popularization of football (soccer) in Japan and has inspired generations of professional players including Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta, and Zinedine Zidane — all of whom have publicly cited Captain Tsubasa as a childhood influence. Tsubasa Yonaga — Japanese voice actor (anime).

Wings (modern Japanese unisex) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Tsubasa
Pronunciation
/ tsʊˈbɑː.sɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tsubasa stands.

Tsubasa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tsubasas before her.

Real people
Tsubasa Imai
Japanese J-pop singer.
born 1982
Tsubasa Honda
Japanese model + actress.
born 1992
In fiction
Captain Tsubasa
Iconic Japanese sports manga (80M+ copies).
1981

Names connected to Tsubasa.

The number behind Tsubasa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tsubasa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.