Takeru

Takeru (たける, タケル) is a masculine Japanese given name.

Takeru

Yamato Takeru, the legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty
Pronunciation	[ta.ke.ɾɯ]
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Region of origin	Japanese
Other names
Related names	Takeo

Orthography

Takeru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 武, "warrior"
• 猛, "fierce"
• 健, "health"
• 尊, "noble"
• 岳, "mountain"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Kanji combinations of the name are:

• 武尊
• 武瑠
• 武流
• 武琉
• 武留
• 丈瑠
• 丈流
• 丈琉
• 丈留
• 尊瑠
• 尊流
• 尊琉
• 尊留

People

• Takeru Imamura (猛), a Japanese baseball player
• Takeru Inukai (健), a Japanese politician
• Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (尊), a Japanese competitive eater
• Takeru (Sug) (武瑠), a Japanese singer from the rock band Sug
• Takeru Nagayoshi (たける), a Japanese manga artist
• Takeru Satoh (健), a Japanese actor, portrays Ryotaro Nogami in tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
• Takeru Segawa (世川 武尊, born 1991), Japanese kickboxer
• Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince

Fictional characters

• Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman
• Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles
• Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi
• Takeru Danma, a character known as "The Hatter" in Alice in Borderland, played by Nobuaki Kaneko
• Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist
• Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride
• Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American comic book series Witchblade
• Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends
• Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki!
• Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
• Takeru Shirogane, the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv
• Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon
• Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
• Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers
• Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games
• Takeru Tenkūji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost
• Takeru Tsukumo, a main character in the manga Exoskull Zero
• Takeru Jakuzure, a character from Garo
• Takeru Homura, a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
• Takeru Totsuka, a main character in Kamigami no Asobi

Other uses

• Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga
• Takeru, video game developer and publisher
• Brother Industries Takeru, software distribution mechanism in Japan