Kimura
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: very common place name and surname, especially in western and northeastern Japan. Variously written, the original meaning is ‘tree village’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kiˈmʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kimura is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- BRBrazil
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
very common place name and surname, especially in western and northeastern Japan. Variously written, the original meaning is ‘tree village’ . Some bearers are descended from the Fujiwara, Mononobe, and other noble families.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kimura is read(measured from records)
Kimura is one spelling over 3 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.
- Japanese56%
very common place name and surname, especially in western and northeastern Japan. Variously written, the original meaning is ‘tree village’ . Some bearers are descended from the Fujiwara, Mononobe, and other noble families.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English22%
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as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kimura in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- CACanada
- AUAustralia
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Jiroemon Kimurab. 1897JPJapanese supercentenarian, verified longest–lived man in history (1897–2013)
- Masahiko Kimurab. 1917JPJapanese judoka and professional wrestler (1917–1993)
- Isao Kimurab. 1923JPJapanese actor (1923-1981)
- Motoo Kimurab. 1924JPJapanese scientist (1924–1994)
- Chikage Ōgib. 1933JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (1933–2023)
- Tae Kimurab. 1971JPJapanese actress (born 1971)
- Takuya Kimurab. 1972JPJapanese actor and singer
- Saori Kimurab. 1986JPJapanese volleyball player
- Subaru Kimurab. 1990JPGerman–Japanese voice actor
- Hana Kimurab. 1997JPJapanese professional wrestler (1997–2020)
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.2K | #2,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,749 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 59 | #39,857 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 59 | #39,527 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #22,744 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 34 | #34,211 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #34,230 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,228 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Kimura mean, and where does it come from?
- very common place name and surname, especially in western and northeastern Japan. Variously written, the original meaning is ‘tree village’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kimura?
- A machine transcription gives /kiˈmʊɹə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Kimura have the most bearers?
- Kimura is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kimuraThe 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, “Kimura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.