Daisuke

Daisuke combines the Japanese characters often read as great and help, yielding a name that points toward generous assistance or great strength. It rolls in three syllables that English speakers sometimes compress to two, with the final e kept light and clean. Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka brought the name to American sports pages during his years with the Red Sox, and the writer Daisuke Igarashi made it quietly familiar in manga circles. In Japan it has been consistently popular through the late twentieth century. Open-voweled and warm, it sounds like a name that would offer to carry a heavy bag without being asked. Helpful and bright.