Morita
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: rice paddy near the forest, a common place name, variously written. The surname is mostly found in western Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔˈɹitə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morita is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 167K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 104K
- FIFinland1 in 151K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104K (inferred from the name graph)
2,039 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rice paddy near the forest, a common place name, variously written. The surname is mostly found in western Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Morita is read(measured from records)
Morita is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese57%
rice paddy near the forest, a common place name, variously written. The surname is mostly found in western Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English22%
A reddish-brown variety of chipotle.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Morita in Portuguese.
- Spanish5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Morita in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morita 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.
2,039 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Morita 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 Latvian, Budisma iespaidota pašaktualizācijas teorija
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Tama Moritab. 1894JPJapanese politician (1894-1970)
- Akio Moritab. 1921JPJapanese businessman (1921-1999)
- Pat Moritab. 1932USJapanese-American actor (1932–2005)
- Tamorib. 1945JPnot in their usual nameJapanese comedian
- Kensaku Moritab. 1949JPJapanese actor and politician
- Bandō Tamasaburō Vb. 1950JPnot in their usual nameJapanese kabuki actor, director
- Mao Daichib. 1956JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress, voice actress and singer
- Ayumi Moritab. 1990JPJapanese tennis player
- Suzuka Moritab. 1992JPJapanese idol singer
- Hidemasa Moritab. 1995JPJapanese association football player
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 6 | #3,096 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2021 | 5 | #3,240 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2017 | 3 | #4,543 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2004 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2007 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 2 | #5,985 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Morita mean, and where does it come from?
- rice paddy near the forest, a common place name, variously written. The surname is mostly found in western Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morita?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔˈɹitə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Morita have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Morita, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Morita most common?
- Morita is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 104 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Morita?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,039 people named Morita, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Morita?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moritaThe 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, “Morita”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.