Entry № 9571 · Japanese origin

Shinobu Shinobu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shee-NOH-boo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Endurance (iconic Shinobu Kocho - Demon Slayer Insect Hashira)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "endurance (iconic shinobu kocho - demon slayer insect hashira)".

Shinobu is from the Japanese shinobu (忍 — to endure, to bear). Princess Shinobu — modern Japanese-anime heritage naming.

Endurance (iconic Shinobu Kocho - Demon Slayer Insect Hashira) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

しのぶ
Transliteration
Shinobu
Pronunciation
/ ʃiːˈnoʊ.buː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shinobu stands.

Shinobu 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.

Shinobus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shinobu Kocho
Iconic Demon Slayer Insect Pillar Hashira.
2016

Names connected to Shinobu.

The number behind Shinobu.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shinobu reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.