Shimizu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: port, Japan

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ʃɪˈmizu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shimizu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 105K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 127K
  • FIFinland1 in 91K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,613 people, 2010

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

port, Japan

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shimizu 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.

Where Shimizu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,6131 in 127K2.7KShimizu114
BR Brazil2,0121 in 105K2KShimizu99
FI Finland611 in 91K61Shimizu1
PL Poland421 in 911K26——
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38—12
SE Sweden281 in 364K28Shimizu6
CH Switzerland271 in 311K27—1

2,613 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shimizu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ชิมิซึ, ชิมิซุ, ชิมิซู, ชัมซู, ชัมซ

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Masao Shimizu, b. 1908Ranko Hanai, b. 1918Mari Shimizu, b. 1936Hidehiko Shimizu, b. 1954Michiko Shimizu, b. 1960Jenny Shimizu, b. 1967Tadashi Shimizu, b. 1968Takashi Shimizu, b. 1972Ken Shimizu, b. 1979Saki Shimizu, b. 1991

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)

FormalShimizu様Dear Shimizu-san, (English)
Informalこんにちは、ShimizuさんHi Shimizu, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Shimizu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#54,886

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Shimizu mean, and where does it come from?
port, Japan Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Shimizu?
A machine transcription gives /ʃɪˈmizu/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Shimizu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Shimizu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shimizu.
Where is Shimizu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shimizu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 91 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shimizu?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,613 people named Shimizu in 2010, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.

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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, “Shimizu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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