調

loc · Han script

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

調 is a name written in the Han script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: tune (v.), adjust.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan
  • TWTaiwan

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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

tune (v.), adjust

Sources 3

  • Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)
  • KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG)
  • 中国姓氏大辞典 (Chinese Surnames Mega-Dictionary)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

調 is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, From the Zhou office of Tiaoren, whose hereditary holders adopted the office name as a surname.

    as a name中国姓氏大辞典 (Chinese Surnames Mega-Dictionary)

  • In Japanese, tune, tone, meter, key (music)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Chinese, to adjust; to regulate

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Chinese, tune (v.), adjust

    as a wordBaxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 調 mean, and where does it come from?
tune (v.), adjust Recorded by Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction, version 1.1 (2014) and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG) and 1 other source.
In which country does 調 have the most bearers?
調 is most frequently recorded in Japan.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “調”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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