Vatanabe
surname · Latin script
Vatanabe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 13Mas Ватанабэ
- UAUkraine≈1 in 41Mas Ватанабе
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 Vatanabe 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
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
203 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ватанабэ in RU Russia, TR Türkiye and Ватанабе in UA Ukraine.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vatanabe 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.
203 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). 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)
- Yoshimi Watanabeb. 1952JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician
- Hiroyuki Watanabeb. 1955JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor (1955−2022)
- Ken Watanabeb. 1959JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
- Shinichirō Watanabeb. 1965JPnot in their usual nameJapanese anime director
- Ayumu Watanabeb. 1966JPnot in their usual nameJapanese animator
- Akeno Watanabeb. 1982JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress and narrator
- Anne Watanabeb. 1986JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress and model
- Naomi Watanabeb. 1987JPnot in their usual nameJapanese comedy talent, actress
- Miyuki Watanabeb. 1993JPnot in their usual nameJapanese gravure idol, model, dancer and YouTuber (1993-)
- Mayu Watanabeb. 1994JPnot in their usual nameJapanese 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 203 | #36,365 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Vatanabe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 203 people named Vatanabe, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vatanabe most common?
- Vatanabe is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vatanabe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 203 people named Vatanabe, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Vatanabe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vatanabeThe 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, “Vatanabe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.