Not according to this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449007

IMO The person making those claims has a very trollish comment history and I suspect they do not actually have deep knowledge of the Japanese language or culture, especially surrounding names and kanji.

The name "Satoshi" exists in kanji form in hundreds of different ways, and as you can imagine, the meanings for those are quite varied. One such common example, 智, does in fact mean intelligence, and can be read as "Satoshi", but there are other examples as well. You can search the ENAMDICT here: http://wwwjdic.biz/cgi-bin/wwwjdic

If you think about this name from the perspective of someone who probably isn't a Japanese expert, but is trying to come up with a believable-sounding name that has a semi-secret meaning like this, I think it makes perfect sense.

	▲	griffzhowl 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I did check the claims in the post and found they're factually correct, within the vagaries of name meanings and etymology. Here's the post: -- "No, "Satoshi Nakamoto" does not translate to "Central Intelligence" in Japanese. Here's a breakdown of the name: - Satoshi (さとし) is a common Japanese given name, often meaning "wise" or "clear-thinking." - Nakamoto (中本) is a common Japanese surname, with "naka" (中) meaning "middle" or "center," and "moto" (本) meaning "origin" or "foundation." While "Naka" could be loosely interpreted as "center," and "moto" as "origin," this does not equate to "Central Intelligence." The name does not directly relate to any specific phrase or concept like "Central Intelligence." It's a common Japanese name with meanings unrelated to intelligence agencies or organizations." -- I checked the commenter's history after your comment and I agree it's often trollish, but this is just ad hominem and nothing to do with evaluating the accuracy of the content of this particular post. It also sounds unrealistic to me that there are actually hundreds of kanji for "Satoshi", but here there are 130 https://japanese-names.info/first-name/satoshi/, so it's a large number. What that means is that in fact there are a huge number of possible interpretations, and saying that it "literally translates" to central intelligence is misleading if you don't mention that it "literally translates" to more than a hundred different meanings too. You could say "one possible loose translation is central intelligence". That would be fair enough. Here's a discussion of the meaning on stackexchange: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/83886/do-%E3%82%...