Entry № 10790 · Japanese origin

Tsubaki Tsubaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tsoo-BAH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Camellia"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "camellia".

Tsubaki (椿) is the Japanese word for "camellia" — the evergreen winter-flowering shrub. Camellia is the unofficial flower of Japanese refined femininity, central to the Kyoto aesthetic.

Shiseido's Tsubaki haircare brand is named after the camellia oil it uses.

Camellia. The Japanese winter flower.

The name in its native script.

椿
Transliteration
Tsubaki
Pronunciation
/ tsuˈbɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tsubaki stands.

Tsubaki 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.

Tsubakis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tsubaki Nakatsukasa
Character in Soul Eater.
2003 manga

Names connected to Tsubaki.

The number behind Tsubaki.

2

The Peacemaker

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