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Pronunciation Tá-ké-ó (Ta-kay-oh)

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Taki, Kayo

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Meaning: It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Origin: Japanese
Takeo (たけお, タケオ?) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Takeo can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
武夫, "warrior, man"
武雄, "warrior, brave"
猛雄, "fierce, brave"
健男, "health, man"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana characters

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People with the given name Takeo:
Takeo Ando (武夫), professional Go player
Takeo Arishima (武郎), Japanese novelist
Takeo Doi (健郎), Japanese psychoanalyst
Takeo Fukuda (赳夫), 67th Prime Minister of Japan
Takeo Fukui (威夫), president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Takeo Hatanaka (武夫), Japanese astronomer
Takeo Hirose (武夫), officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
Takeo Itō (武夫), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
Takeo Kajiwara (武雄), Japanese professional Go player
Takeo Kanade (武雄), Japanese researcher in Computer Vision
Takeo Kawamura (丈夫), Japanese professional baseball player
Takeo Kawamura (建夫), Japanese politician
Takeo Kikuchi (武夫), Japanese industrial and fashion designer
Takeo Kimura (1918–2010), Japanese filmmaker
Takeo Komatsu (太計雄), Japanese photographer
Takeo Kurita (健男), vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
Takeo Miki (武夫), 66th Prime Minister of Japan
Takeo Miratsu (健雄), Japanese video game and Anime composer
Takeo Nishioka (武夫), Japanese politician
Takeo Otsuka (武生), Japanese professional wrestler
Takeo Spikes, American football linebacker
Takeo Takagi (武雄), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
Takeo Takahashi (丈夫), Japanese animation director
Takeo Uesugi, Japanese-American landscape architect
Takeo Yasuda (武雄), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
Takeo Yoshikawa (猛夫), Japanese spy
With the Surnamne Takeo:
Mikael Takeo , Owner of the Company Takeo IT Consulting (www.takeo.se)

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Fictional characterswith the given name Takeo:
Takeo Saeki (武男), software developer
Takeo Masaki (武正樹), a video game character from Call of Duty: World at War's Nazi Zombies
Takeo Otori, the main protagonist in Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori.
Taken from Wikipedia