Matsumura
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name meaning ‘pine tree village’, found throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑtsuˈmʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Matsumura is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 269K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 324K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 269K (inferred from the name graph)
1,026 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
habitational name meaning ‘pine tree village’, found throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Several families of this name have samurai connections.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Matsumura 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,026 | 1 in 324K | 1.1K | Matsumura | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 786 | 1 in 269K | 786 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 16 | 1 in 2.8M | 16 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
1,026 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Matsumura Sōkonb. 1809JPokinawaian karateka
- Ninzo Matsumurab. 1856JPJapanese botanist (1856-1928)
- Tatsuo Matsumurab. 1914JPJapanese actor (1914-2005)
- Akira Matsumurab. 1916JPJapanese linguist
- Ayumi Matsumurab. 1958JPJapanese screenwriter
- Katsuya Matsumurab. 1963JPJapanese film director
- Kunihiro Matsumurab. 1967JPcomedian
- Takeshi Matsumurab. 1970JPJapanese actor, seiyū, playwright and talent manager
- Kaori Matsumurab. 1990JPJapanese singer and SKE48 Team KII member
- Sayuri Matsumurab. 1992JPJapanese female talent, fashion model, actress, YouTuber
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- Where does the name Matsumura come from?
- habitational name meaning ‘pine tree village’, found throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. Several families of this name have samurai connections. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Matsumura?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑtsuˈmʊɹə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Matsumura mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name meaning ‘pine tree village’, found throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
- In which country does Matsumura have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Matsumura, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matsumura.
- Where is Matsumura most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matsumura is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 269 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matsumura?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,026 people named Matsumura in 2010, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matsumuraThe 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, “Matsumura”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.