Ueda
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɛdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ueda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 上田 (Ueda).
- USUnited States1 in 398K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 68K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
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
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
3,104 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 上田 (Ueda).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ueda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,104 | 1 in 68K | 3.1K | Ueda | 4 |
| US United States | 835 | 1 in 398K | 977 | Ueda | 170 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 24 | 1 in 1.6M | 12 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 2 |
3,104 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ueda Akinarib. 1734JPJapanese writer (1734–1809)
- Masaharu Uedab. 1938JPJapanese cinematographer (1938-2025)
- Miyuki Uedab. 1944JPJapanese actress & voice actress
- Kiyoshi Uedab. 1948JPJapanese politician
- Kazuo Uedab. 1951JPJapanese economist (1951-)
- Yūji Uedab. 1967JPJapanese actor, voice actor and singer
- Fumito Uedab. 1970JPJapanese video game designer
- Kana Uedab. 1980JPJapanese voice actress
- Reina Uedab. 1994JPJapanese voice actress and singer
- Ayase Uedab. 1998JPJapanese 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 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.1K | #3,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 977 | #26,329 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 835 | #28,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 784 | #28,617 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #34,290 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,336 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,180 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #124,577 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ueda mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 上田 (Ueda). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ueda?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɛdə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- In which country does Ueda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Ueda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ueda.
- Where is Ueda most common?
- Ueda is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 68 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ueda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,104 people named Ueda, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uedaThe 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, “Ueda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.