Shoji
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃɔʒi/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Shoji is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).
- JPJapan≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 420Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 850K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji).
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shoji 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #522 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Shoji | 133 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 882K | 16 | Shoji | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 792K | — | Shoji | 15 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Shoji | 10 |
| US United States | — | 264 | 1 in 1.3M | 395 | Shoji | 123 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 846K | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shōji Nishimurab. 1889JPImperial Japanese Navy admiral (1889-1944)
- Takashi Shimurab. 1905JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor (1905–1982)
- Shōji Uedab. 1913JPJapanese photographer (1913-2000)
- Shōji Yasuib. 1928JPactor (1928-2014)
- Shōji Nakayamab. 1928JPJapanese actor
- Masaharu Uedab. 1938JPnot in their usual nameJapanese cinematographer (1938-2025)
- Shouji Gatoub. 1971JPnot in their usual nameJapanese author
- Shoji Job. 1975JPJapanese association football player
- Shoji Satob. 1982JPJapanese badminton player
- Shōji Satōb. 2000JPJapanese mangaka
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 256 | #32,104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 81 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 9 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #32,104 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1932 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1928 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1913 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1945 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1977 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Shoji mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 障子 (shōji). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shoji?
- In Portuguese /ʃɔʒi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shoji a male or female name?
- Shoji is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Shoji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Shoji in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shoji.
- How common is the name Shoji?
- In the United States, the national register counted 264 people named Shoji in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Shoji compared with other names?
- In Japan, Shoji is the 522nd most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shojiThe 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, “Shoji” — the 522nd most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.