Kawano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘river field’; mostly found in western Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑˈwɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kawano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 161K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 199K
- USUnited States1 in 436K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kawano itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
1,064 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘river field’; mostly found in western Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands. Written two ways, of which one can also be pronounced Kono.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kawano counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,064 | 1 in 199K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 763 | 1 in 436K | 763 | Kawano | 10 |
| TH Thailand | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3M | #71,677 | Kawano | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | 21 | 1 in 161K | 21 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
1,064 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kawano is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wrp, a tree: Pometia spp.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kenji Kawanob. 1916JPJapanese historian
- Hiroshi Kawanob. 1925JPJapanese philosopher (1925–2012)
- Tomonobu Kawanob. 1937JPJapanese physician (1937-2005)
- Junji Kawanob. 1945JPJapanese association football player
- Katsutoshi Kawanob. 1954JPJapanese Admiral
- Otoya Kawanob. 1965JPJapanese voice actor
- Kazumasa Kawanob. 1970JPJapanese association football player
- Kōji Kawanob. 1972JPJapanese film director (1972-)
- Naoki Kawanob. 1982JPJapanese actor
- Marina Kawanob. 1990JPJapanese singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kawano come from?
- ‘river field’; mostly found in western Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands. Written two ways, of which one can also be pronounced Kono. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kawano?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈwɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Kawano mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘river field’; mostly found in western Japan, the island of Shikoku, and the Ryukyu Islands.
- In which country does Kawano have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kawano, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kawano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kawano is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kawano?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,064 people named Kawano, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kawanoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kawano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.